In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V.S. NAIPAULThe past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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