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. NAIPAULI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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.
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