His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
V.S. NAIPAULMen need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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The writer is all alone.
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