I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. NAIPAULSmall things start us in new ways of thinking.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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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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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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