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.
V.S. NAIPAULAs a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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