V. S. Naipaul | truth
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V. S. Naipaul | strength
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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V. S. Naipaul | society
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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V. S. Naipaul | home
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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V. S. Naipaul | home
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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V. S. Naipaul | history
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’
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V. S. Naipaul | history
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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