As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V.S. NAIPAULIn England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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