Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V.S. NAIPAULWriters should provoke disagreement.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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
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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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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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The world is always in movement.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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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.
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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.
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