I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. V. S. Naipaul More Quotes by V. S. Naipaul More Quotes From V. S. Naipaul I've been a free man. V. S. Naipaul free-man men 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 nice literature men I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. V. S. Naipaul ancestry mother father I have a very small public. V. S. Naipaul I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. V. S. Naipaul speak authority people One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. V. S. Naipaul universal situation trying If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. V. S. Naipaul law country moving I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. V. S. Naipaul eye people needs Writing has to support itself. V. S. Naipaul support writing 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 spirit fun thinking 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 london lost world You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life. V. S. Naipaul deny 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 careers poetry book I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure. V. S. Naipaul want-him wish writing Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there. V. S. Naipaul neat-and-tidy ends life 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 land home people All cultures have been mingled forever. V. S. Naipaul has-beens forever culture Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies. V. S. Naipaul issues people enemy I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. V. S. Naipaul materials individuality mean Africa has no future. V. S. Naipaul
