"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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Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

V. S. Naipaul

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“I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.”

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“You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.”
“The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.”
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.”
“I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.”

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“We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”

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