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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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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.
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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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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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A cat only has itself.
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Men need history it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart it is enough that there is something there.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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 have a very small public.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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 really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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