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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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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 Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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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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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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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I've never abandoned the novel.
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