The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. NAIPAULIf a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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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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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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Writing has to support itself.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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