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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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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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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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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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