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V.S. Naipaul has 118 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,…
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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,…
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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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…
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of…
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit…
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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…
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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…
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw…
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,…
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My literary success meant nothing to me
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place…
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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