Writers should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAULMaking a book is such a big enterprise.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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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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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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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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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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There 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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