After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
V.S. NAIPAULIt isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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The world is always in movement.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Writing has to support itself.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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