I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V.S. NAIPAULIf writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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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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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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