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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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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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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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 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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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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