The world is always in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULIt isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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As 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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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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