As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V.S. NAIPAULIt 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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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