All cultures have been mingled forever.
V.S. NAIPAULMany writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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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 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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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The world is always in movement.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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