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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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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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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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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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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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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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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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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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I have a very small public.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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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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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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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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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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