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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
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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The writer is all alone.
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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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The world is always in movement.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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