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Who 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…
- Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
- 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…
- The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
- I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
- My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
- Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
- This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture…
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