One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V.S. NAIPAULI always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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