Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V.S. NAIPAULI have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The writer is all alone.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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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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The world is always in movement.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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