If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V.S. NAIPAULAnd 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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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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