I will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULThe Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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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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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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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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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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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