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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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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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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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 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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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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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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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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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