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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
~ V. S. Naipaul
About
Behind
Came
Changed
Families
Father
Had
India
Know
Late
Left
Made
Nepal
Nothing
Only
Our
People
Side
Some
Them
Thinking
Too
Too Late
Ways
Wished
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Attitude
General
Past
Suppose
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Actual
Am
Any
Any Given Moment
Awaits
Aware
Book
Come
Extra
Formed
Fully
Given
Hardly
I Am
Luck
Me
Moment
Next
Surprise
Take
Whatever
Will
Writing
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A cat only has itself.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Cat
Itself
Only
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Cannot
Civilization
Dying
Over
Said
Taken
Which
World
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Africa has no future.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Africa
Future
No Future
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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
Africa
Fun
Know
Lifts
Place
Said
Senses
Somewhere
Spirits
Think
Traveled
You
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
~ V. S. Naipaul
African
Kicked
Need
Only
The Only Thing
Thing
Understand
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
~ V. S. Naipaul
About
Becoming
Father
Me
Read
Right
Stories
Things
Were
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Autobiography
Distort
Facts
Fiction
Lies
Never
Reveals
Totally
Writer
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Friends
Had
No Friends
Only
School
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Art
Biography
Done
Great
History
Writing
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Child
Feel
Home
House
Idea
Just
Lamp
Night
Place
Safe
Suppose
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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.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Area
Atheist
Become
Belief
Free
Go
How
Ideology
See
Some
You
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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
Always
Come
Had
Home
Knew
Lands
Looking
Other
People
Where
Who
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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
Ask
Became
Discovery
Interested
Islamic
Make
Narrative
Question
Questions
Roots
Simple
Somehow
Thought
Try
Understand
Very
Would
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Could
Dreadful
End
Eyes
Meet
Needs
People
Seeing
Through
Up
World
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Authority
Feel
I Can
Many
Other
People
Speak
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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Bigger
Entered
Grew
Left
Place
Quite
Small
Up
World
Young
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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
About
Charming
Friends
Had
He
Judgment
Literary
Literature
Man
Nice
Really
Student
Talk
Tutor
Very
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