I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V.S. NAIPAULI don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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