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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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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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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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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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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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