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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
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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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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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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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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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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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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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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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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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The world is always in movement.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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