I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
V.S. NAIPAULThe reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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 still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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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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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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