But everything of value about me is in my books.
V.S. NAIPAULThe first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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 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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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