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All Quotes by author - V. S. Naipaul
" A cat only has itself. "
Cat
Only
Itself
" A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. "
Over
Dying
Said
" Africa has no future. "
Future
No Future
Africa
" 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. "
Know
You
Think
" Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. "
Kicked
Thing
Only
" 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. "
Writing
Details
Life
" All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. "
Father
Things
Right
" An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. "
Autobiography
Facts
Never
" 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. "
Year
Political
Life
" 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. "
Children
Child
World
" At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. "
Had
Friends
School
" But everything of value about me is in my books. "
Books
About
Me
" 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. "
Feel
Career
Said
" Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. "
Art
Done
Great
" Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. "
House
Place
Child
" How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology. "
See
Atheist
Become
" I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. "
Come
Always
Who
" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "
I Am
People
Kind
" 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. "
Thought
Roots
Questions
" 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. "
Come
World
Lost
" I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. "
Seeing
End
Eyes
" I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. "
Feel
Speak
People
" 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? "
Work
Know
Time
" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "
Writer
Hostility
He
" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "
You
Intellectual
Go
" If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. "
Talk
Writing
Oppression
" 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. "
Country
You
Aggression
" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. "
Ready
Serious
Want
" 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. "
Write
You
Narrative
" I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. "
Place
World
Young
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