V. S. Naipaul
Quotations
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“One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“It is important not to trust people too much.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’” -V. S. Naipaul
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“Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“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 was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.” -V. S. Naipaul
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it’s O.K., but it’s of no account. – V. S. Naipaul
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