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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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A cat only has itself.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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 always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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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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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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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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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The writer is all alone.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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