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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 wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
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Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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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 read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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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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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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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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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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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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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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.
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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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