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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
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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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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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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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.
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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 don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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