If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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The world is always in movement.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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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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