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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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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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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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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I've been a free man.
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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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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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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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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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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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