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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.
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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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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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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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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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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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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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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