The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
V.S. NAIPAULWriters should provoke disagreement.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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