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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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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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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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I have a very small public.
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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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