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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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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

#another #country #culture #decide #disregard

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#reputation #way

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

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

— V. S. Naipaul

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Making a book is such a big enterprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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My life is short. I can't listen to banality. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behold #editor #feminine #good #publisher

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. ↗

— 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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