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V S Naipaul Inspirational Quotes (114)

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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side I know only that some of them came from Nepal
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The world is always in movement.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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