Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V.S. NAIPAULThe first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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The writer is all alone.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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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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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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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 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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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