But everything of value about me is in my books.
V.S. NAIPAULI have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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 past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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