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A cat only has itself.

V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Journalist
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I've been a free man.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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