We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAULThere 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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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The world is always in movement.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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 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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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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