It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
V.S. NAIPAULI’ve never abandoned the novel.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Men 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.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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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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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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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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