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V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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Men need history it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart it is enough that there is something there.
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I have a very small public.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side I know only that some of them came from Nepal
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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