It is important not to trust people too much.
V.S. NAIPAULIt is important not to trust people too much.
V.S. NAIPAULSmall things start us in new ways of thinking.
V.S. NAIPAULThat element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V.S. NAIPAULAll cultures have been mingled forever.
V.S. NAIPAULEverybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V.S. NAIPAULI feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V.S. NAIPAULAn autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V.S. NAIPAULThe Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
V.S. NAIPAULOne must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
V.S. NAIPAULWriters should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAULI don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULIf ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULJudgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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