I will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULAll cultures have been mingled forever.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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The world is always in movement.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Writing has to support itself.
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