“To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one’s group the way the outside world saw one; and it was to know a kind of rage. India was now full… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“We have no means of understanding a fraction of the thought and science and philosophy and law that have gone to make that outside world. We simply accept it. We have grown up paying tribute to it, and that is… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“In his original design the solicitor's clerk seemed to have forgotten the need for a staircase to link both the floors, and what he… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only a pose,… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“It was as Nazruddin had said, when I asked him about visas and he had said that bank notes were better. 'You can always… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard. ‘Is Leela self who write that,’… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“In my late thirties the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head: the dream of a noise in… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“For when one thinks of Guiana one thinks of a country whose inadequate resources are strained in every way, a country whose geography imposes… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela,… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“Misir’s first story was about a man who had been out of work for months and was starving. His five children were starving; his… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
“What Raja Ram Mohun Roy began as a reform movment early in the 19th century Devendranath Tagore made into a religion. It transformed the… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share
