V. S. Naipaul Quotes

• Africa has no future.

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• Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don’t think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

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• Africans need to be kicked, that’s the only thing they understand.

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• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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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.

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• I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

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• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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  Tags in Comedy, Writers And Writing, Hysteria, Deepest, Write, Comedian

• The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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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 the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

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• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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  Tags in Ant, Events, Forest, Community, Crisis

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

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• The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

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• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father’s side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

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• But everything of value about me is in my books.

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• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us – for the time being, and only for the time being – to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

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• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.

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• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

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• 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.

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V. S. Naipaul (88)

Birth:	17th August, 1932
Nationality:	British, Trinidadian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

About

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Kanyakubja Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.

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