Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
