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V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time."

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to."

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.




V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read."

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.



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

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




V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Writing has to support itself."

Writing has to support itself.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world."

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.




V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there."

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."

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



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait."

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness."

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 Quotes: "You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it."

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside."

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I've never abandoned the novel."

I've never abandoned the novel.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet."

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I have a very small public."

I have a very small public.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred."

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work."

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies."

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie."

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Great writing can be done in biography, history, art."

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "All cultures have been mingled forever."

All cultures have been mingled forever.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life."

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."

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 Quotes: "In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost."

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands."

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 Quotes: "The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate."

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right."

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Africa has no future."

Africa has no future.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon."

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



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea."

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people."

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



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "The writer is all alone."

The writer is all alone.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment."

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "A cat only has itself."

A cat only has itself.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I've been a free man."

I've been a free man.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background."

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.



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

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



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "Nothing was made in Trinidad."

Nothing was made in Trinidad.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear."

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling..."

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects."

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.



V.S. Naipaul Quotes: "A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur."

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.