It is important not to trust people too much.
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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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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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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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Writing has to support itself.
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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