Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
V.S. NAIPAULI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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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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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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