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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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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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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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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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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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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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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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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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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A cat only has itself.
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Men need history it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart it is enough that there is something there.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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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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