You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
V.S. NAIPAULAfter all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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 always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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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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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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