Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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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’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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 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 world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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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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