If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
V.S. NAIPAULLife 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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The writer is all alone.
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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.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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