If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULThe writer is all alone.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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