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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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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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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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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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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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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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