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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.
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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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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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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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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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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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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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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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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 been a free man.
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