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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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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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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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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Writing has to support itself.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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