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.
V.S. NAIPAULMost 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.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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The world is always in movement.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been 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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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