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V S Naipaul Quotes
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins (V S Naipaul Quotes)
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. all children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are (V S Naipaul Quotes)
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do (V S Naipaul Quotes)
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness (V S Naipaul Quotes)
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it (V S Naipaul Quotes)
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true (V S Naipaul Quotes)
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one's portion of the Earth; to have lived and died as one has been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves (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)
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling (V S Naipaul Quotes)
Attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband (V S Naipaul Quotes)
More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside (V S Naipaul Quotes)
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over (V S Naipaul Quotes)
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten (V S Naipaul Quotes)
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
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 (V S Naipaul Quotes)
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal (V S Naipaul Quotes)
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise (V S Naipaul Quotes)