If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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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 became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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