We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAULIf a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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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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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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