The world is always in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULI still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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The writer is all alone.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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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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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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