There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
V.S. NAIPAULMost 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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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And 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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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 is important not to trust people too much.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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 world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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