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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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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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I have a very small public.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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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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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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Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.
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