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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

V.S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
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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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

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