The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULAll cultures have been mingled forever.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The world is always in movement.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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