I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
V.S. NAIPAULWriting has to support itself.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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 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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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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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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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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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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The writer is all alone.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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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