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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.
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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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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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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
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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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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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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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