I will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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