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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
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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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'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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The world is always in movement.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
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People come and go all the time the world has always been in movement.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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