One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V.S. NAIPAULWe cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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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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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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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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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Writing has to support itself.
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The world is always in movement.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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