If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
