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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.
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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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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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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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Africa has no future.
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