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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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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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 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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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