But everything of value about me is in my books.
V.S. NAIPAULEverybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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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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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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