One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULMen need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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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 cultures have been mingled forever.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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