I’ve never abandoned the novel.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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The writer is all alone.
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The world is always in movement.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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