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. 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 Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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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 became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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The world is always in movement.
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