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V. S. Naipaul

"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

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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."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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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."
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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."
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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."
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