I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking f… — Quoted

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“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

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.

History

V. S. Naipaul

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

Truth

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Society

V. S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone.

Loneliness