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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.
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 biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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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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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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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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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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