"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."

--

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Half a Life”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

V. S. Naipaul

“I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.”
“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”
“There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.”
“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.”
“Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.”
“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”
“You can judge a man by the books in his library.”
“A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”

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