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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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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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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 had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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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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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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