In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V.S. NAIPAULThe ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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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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