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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. — V.S. Naipaul

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

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. — V.S. Naipaul

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

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

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over — V.S. Naipaul

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. — V.S. Naipaul

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

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. — V.S. Naipaul

to be among the ruins was to have your time-sense unsettled. — V.S. Naipaul

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

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

I've never abandoned the novel. — V.S. Naipaul

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common. — V.S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. — V.S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V.S. Naipaul

But the people I found, the people I was attracted to were not unlike myself. They were trying to find order in their world, looking for the centre.. — V.S. Naipaul

Everywhere else men are in movement, the world is in movement, and the past can only cause pain. — V.S. Naipaul

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. — V.S. Naipaul

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

[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid. — V.S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. — V.S. Naipaul

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. — V.S. Naipaul

Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi — V.S. Naipaul

Without always knowing what we were doing we were constantly adjusting to the arbitrariness by which we were surrounded. — V.S. Naipaul

Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief. — V.S. Naipaul

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

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. — V.S. Naipaul

Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area. — V.S. Naipaul

Government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you. — V.S. Naipaul