Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
V.S. NAIPAULI could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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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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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Men 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.
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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 a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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The writer is all alone.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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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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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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