The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULThe past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULI profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V.S. NAIPAULThis 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.
V.S. NAIPAULThe writer is all alone.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world is always in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULJudgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V.S. NAIPAULWe cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAULI still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
V.S. NAIPAULThe 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.
V.S. NAIPAULIf 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.
V.S. NAIPAULIt isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
V.S. NAIPAULBut everything of value about me is in my books.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULHome 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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