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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
Amount
Details
Documentation
Fascinating
Friendships
However
Laid
Life
Mystery
Out
Remain
Take
Us
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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.
~ V. S. Naipaul
African
Always
Ant
Begins
Community
Crisis
Cyclical
Deaths
Ends
Events
Forest
Full
Life
Like
Political
Political Life
Tribe
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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
Almost
Almost Nothing
Beyond
Child
Children
Come
Grandmother
Had
House
Knew
Knowing
Like
Not Knowing
Nothing
Picked
Suppose
Up
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
~ V. S. Naipaul
About
Books
Everything
Me
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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
Any
Been
Before
Book
Career
Case
Contained
Could
Each
Feel
Fiction
Gone
Grows
I Feel
Intuitively
Last
Literary
Others
Out
Said
Sensed
Stage
Stands
Worked
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Am
I Am
Kind
Other
People
Reading
Think
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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.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Become
Came
Center
Come
Had
Hard
I Came
London
Lost
Worked
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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
After
Find
Fully
Idea
Intuition
Intuitively
Only
Shape
Some
Start
Subjects
Trusted
Understand
Will
Written
Years
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Am
Books
I Am
Say
Sum
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Kind
Other
People
Reading
Think
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
~ V. S. Naipaul
According
Arrival
Being
Community
Disadvantaged
Fading
Idea
India
Kind
Live
New
Only
Our
Own
Protection
Rules
Time
Us
Way
Were
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
~ V. S. Naipaul
After
Been
City
Cut
Defined
Ever
Explored
Getting
Good
Good Place
Had
Heart
Itself
Knew
Lost
Many
Neutral
No-One
Outward
Paths
Place
Separated
Through
Unknown
Until
Which
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Always
Comedy
Deepest
Hysteria
Moment
Writes
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Am
Doing
Easy
Easy Thing
Element
I Am
Judging
Look
Never
Surprise
Thing
Way
Which
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Always
Autobiography
Biography
Even
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
~ V. S. Naipaul
About
Beginning
Business
Define
Did
Even
Even Now
Go
Gone
How
Idea
Intuition
Might
Next
No Idea
Now
Out
Reason
Things
Trusted
Turn
Where
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The world is always in movement.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Always
Movement
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Allow
Become
Men
Nothing
Place
Themselves
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
~ V. S. Naipaul
About
Darkness
Existed
Kind
Nothing
Outside
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Ask
Give
Given
Lecture
Lectures
Me
People
Readings
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Unusual
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