It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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