I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
V.S. NAIPAULI still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
V.S. NAIPAULHome is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
V.S. NAIPAULYou can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
V.S. NAIPAULIn England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V.S. NAIPAULIf you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
V.S. NAIPAULI’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
V.S. NAIPAULHis ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
V.S. NAIPAULI’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
V.S. NAIPAULI feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. NAIPAULThe past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULI read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V.S. NAIPAULThe ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
V.S. NAIPAULAll the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V.S. NAIPAULBut everything of value about me is in my books.
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