Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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Life 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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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The 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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