I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. NAIPAULIf ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Writing has to support itself.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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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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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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