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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
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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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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I've been a free man.
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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 feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The world is always in movement.
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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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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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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 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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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.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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