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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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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 had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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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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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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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The world is always in movement.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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I've been a free man.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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