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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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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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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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