His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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Writing has to support itself.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Men 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.
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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.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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