I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V.S. NAIPAULYou need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Writing has to support itself.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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