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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
 V. S. Naipaul

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Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
 V. S. Naipaul
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
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
 V. S. Naipaul