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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
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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The world is always in movement.
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The writer is all alone.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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