One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V.S. NAIPAULLife 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.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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 family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Writing has to support itself.
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The writer is all alone.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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