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Had Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- 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…
- I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There…
- I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
- I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
- I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary…
- Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
- I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard…
- 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…
- At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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