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I feel like my whole life only tennis. ↗

— Li Na

#i #i feel #i feel like #life #like

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#need #only #the only thing #thing #understand

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#importance #important #individual #only #society

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

A cat only has itself. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#itself #only

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#find #fully #i #idea #intuition

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#another #because #childhood #complete #deal

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. ↗

— Mira Nair

#art #flinching #i #i can #only