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All cultures have been mingled forever.

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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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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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
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Africa has no future.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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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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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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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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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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 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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