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“ I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it? ”

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Non-fiction can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

~ V.s. Naipaul

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The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.

~ V.s. Naipaul

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I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than I had ever been.

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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

~ V.s. Naipaul

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