It is important not to trust people too much.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Writing has to support itself.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The world is always in movement.
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