Quotes from Naipaul V.S.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.

In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

And in India it was necessary to take people's feelings into consideration.

The chaos lies all within.

A celestial camera recorded my every movement, impartially, without judgement or pity. I was marked; I was of interest; I would survive.

For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.