People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULThe writer is all alone.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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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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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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 world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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 isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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