More quotes by V. S. Naipaul
A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good.
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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