The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V.S. NAIPAULThe 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.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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 profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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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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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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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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