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I will say I am the sum of my books.

V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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A cat only has itself.
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Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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I have a very small public.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I've been a free man.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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