My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
V.S. NAIPAULI don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The world is always in movement.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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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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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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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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