The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAULMaking a book is such a big enterprise.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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