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V S Naipaul Quotes

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing Picture Quote #1

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter. ‘ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually Picture Quote #1

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment Picture Quote #1

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet Picture Quote #1

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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’ Picture Quote #1

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don’t think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in Picture Quote #1

You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it Picture Quote #1

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’ Picture Quote #1

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Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don’t have causes. They only have enemies Picture Quote #1

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally Picture Quote #1

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes Picture Quote #1

But everything of value about me is in my books Picture Quote #1

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading Picture Quote #1

I will say I am the sum of my books Picture Quote #1

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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria Picture Quote #1

The world is always in movement Picture Quote #1

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing Picture Quote #1

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two Picture Quote #1

I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies Picture Quote #1

Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone Picture Quote #1

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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves Picture Quote #1

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities Picture Quote #1

It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right Picture Quote #1

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying Picture Quote #1

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing (V S Naipaul Quotes) To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter. ‘ (V S Naipaul Quotes) 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 (V S Naipaul Quotes) It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually (V S Naipaul Quotes) I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment (V S Naipaul Quotes) In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet (V S Naipaul Quotes) It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’ (V S Naipaul Quotes) Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don’t think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in (V S Naipaul Quotes) You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it. (V S Naipaul Quotes) My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. (V S Naipaul Quotes) 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. (V S Naipaul Quotes) To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’ (V S Naipaul Quotes) Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don’t have causes. They only have enemies. (V S Naipaul Quotes) An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. (V S Naipaul Quotes) Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes (V S Naipaul Quotes) But everything of value about me is in my books (V S Naipaul Quotes) I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading (V S Naipaul Quotes) I will say I am the sum of my books (V S Naipaul Quotes) One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria (V S Naipaul Quotes) The world is always in movement (V S Naipaul Quotes) The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing (V S Naipaul Quotes) Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two (V S Naipaul Quotes) I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies (V S Naipaul Quotes) Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone (V S Naipaul Quotes) The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves (V S Naipaul Quotes) After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities (V S Naipaul Quotes) It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right (V S Naipaul Quotes) A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying (V S Naipaul Quotes) I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie (V S Naipaul Quotes) 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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)

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