Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V.S. NAIPAULWhen I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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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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