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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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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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The world is always in movement.
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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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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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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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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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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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Writing has to support itself.
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