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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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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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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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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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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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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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