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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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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 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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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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