Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
V.S. NAIPAULWriters should provoke disagreement.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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.
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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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The world is always in movement.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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 read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Writing has to support itself.
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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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