All cultures have been mingled forever.
V.S. NAIPAULIgnorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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The writer is all alone.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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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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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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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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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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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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