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V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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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.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I've been a free man.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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