It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
V.S. NAIPAULIt isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
V.S. NAIPAULYou can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
V.S. NAIPAULIf writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V.S. NAIPAULOne must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULIf you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
V.S. NAIPAULIf ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULAll the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
V.S. NAIPAULIf a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
V.S. NAIPAULI’ve never abandoned the novel.
V.S. NAIPAULI still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
V.S. NAIPAULMy life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
V.S. NAIPAULI will say I am the sum of my books.
V.S. NAIPAULI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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.
V.S. NAIPAULThe past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAUL