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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/all-the-details-of-the-life-and-the-quirks-and-the-friendships-can-be/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

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## More by V. S. Naipaul

> [In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/in-trinidad-where-as-new-arrivals-we-were-a-disadvantaged-community/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/many-writers-tend-to-write-summing-up-books-at-the-end-of-their-lives/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [My life is short. I can't listen to banality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/my-life-is-short-i-can-t-listen-to-banality/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/if-you-decide-to-move-to-another-country-and-to-live-within-its-laws/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/i-don-t-feel-i-can-speak-with-authority-for-many-other-people/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/to-this-day-if-you-ask-me-how-i-became-a-writer-i-cannot-give-you-an/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [The world is always in movement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/the-world-is-always-in-movement/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/at-school-i-had-only-admirers-i-had-no-friends/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [I'm very content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/i-m-very-content/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/in-our-island-myth-this-was-the-prescribed-end-of-marriages-like-mine/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/in-the-beginning-before-the-arrival-of-the-white-men-i-had-considered/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/i-m-my-own-writer-my-material-means-i-m-entirely-separate/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/the-only-lies-for-which-we-are-truly-punished-are-those-we-tell/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/i-have-always-moved-by-intuition-alone-i-have-no-system-literary-or/)

[V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/)

> [Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/where-jargon-turns-living-issues-into-abstractions-and-where-jargon/)

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