All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V.S. NAIPAULThe ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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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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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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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