One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULIf a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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