I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. NAIPAULJudgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The writer is all alone.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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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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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.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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