And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
V.S. NAIPAULHome is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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 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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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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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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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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The writer is all alone.
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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 could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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