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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
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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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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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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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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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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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've never abandoned the novel.
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