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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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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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 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 world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side I know only that some of them came from Nepal
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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