But everything of value about me is in my books.
V.S. NAIPAULHis ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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