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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.
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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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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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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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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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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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 grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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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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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I've never abandoned the novel.
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The writer is all alone.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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