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V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidadian Novelist

Born: Aug 17, 1932

Always Nothing People World Writing You

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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. V. S. Naipaul

People Become Live Other Honors Ways Recognize See More Only Longer Greatest Exist Realities Them Convinced Specific

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul

Work You People Other Born Through Self Mass Ideas Expectations

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

Distort Lies Totally Writer Facts Never Reveals Autobiography Fiction

Writers should provoke disagreement. V. S. Naipaul

Writers Disagreement Provoke Should

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. V. S. Naipaul

World Young Entered Small Left Up Quite Grew Bigger Place

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. V. S. Naipaul

Life Life Is Short My Life Banality Listen Short

Africa has no future. V. S. Naipaul

Future No Future Africa

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. V. S. Naipaul

Comedy Writes Hysteria Always Moment Deepest

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

World Men Become Nothing Allow Place Themselves Who

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul

Simple Society Philistine Complex Seem Colonial Knows May Anyone Who

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. V. S. Naipaul

Books Tend Write Writers End Many Lives

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

Alone You Sit Weave Write Narrative Account Little Novel

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. V. S. Naipaul

World Civilization Taken Over Said Dying Cannot Which

I have a very small public. V. S. Naipaul

Small Very Public

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

Life Experience Complete Kind Able Some Life Goes On Only Writer Writers He Well Another Because Deal Goes Childhood Processing Keep

I'm very content. V. S. Naipaul

Content Very

Writing has to support itself. V. S. Naipaul

Writing Support Itself

A cat only has itself. V. S. Naipaul

Only Cat Itself

The writer is all alone. V. S. Naipaul

Alone Writer

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know? V. S. Naipaul

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? V. S. Naipaul

Character Yourself Made Giving Trouble Looking Enough Writer Like Him Around Go Just Asking Many Things

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