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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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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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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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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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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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