The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V.S. NAIPAULI read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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The writer is all alone.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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