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.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The writer is all alone.
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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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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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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 have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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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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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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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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