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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#distort #facts #fiction #lies #never

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beyond #child #children #come #grandmother

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

— V. S. Naipaul

#books #everything #me #value

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. ↗

— 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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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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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#feel #i #i can #many #other