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"Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two."
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V. S. NaipaulIf a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. — V. S. Naipaul
"If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead."
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V. S. Naipaul
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his work of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published m
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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"One isnt born ones self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peoples ideas — and you have to work through it all."
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"To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didnt know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up."
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"What is happening in India is a mighty creative process.... But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening. Deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging to their historical humiliation. … It is not enough to abuse these youths or use that fashionable word from Europe, fascism… There is a big, historical development going on in India. Wise men should understand it and ensure that it does not remain in the hands of fanatics."
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"A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others."
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