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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Africa has no future.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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