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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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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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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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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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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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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 first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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