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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

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

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— 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

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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