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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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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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