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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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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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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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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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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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The writer is all alone.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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