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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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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Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.
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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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I've been a free man.
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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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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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