Most 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.
V.S. NAIPAULMen 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.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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 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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