I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V.S. NAIPAULI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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The world is always in movement.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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