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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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An autobiography can distort facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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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.
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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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I've been a free man.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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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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