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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 world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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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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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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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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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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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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