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.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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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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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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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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I 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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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