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.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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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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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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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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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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