As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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