The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAULAll cultures have been mingled forever.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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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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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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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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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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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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