I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. NAIPAULWe cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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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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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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 world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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