When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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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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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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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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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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.
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