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“The writer is all alone.”

V. S. Naipaul · Loneliness

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V. S. Naipaul

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Attitude

V. S. Naipaul

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.

Experience

V. S. Naipaul

Africa has no future.

Future

V. S. Naipaul

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.'

History