Best V.S. Naipaul Quotes
- A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees… Businessman
- If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to… Coast
- 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… Army
- The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had… Done Good
- In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the… According
- The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. Darkness
- A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. Civilization
- I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. Authority
- I have a very small public. Funny
- I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. Ancestry
- I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. Lastingness
- I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. Funny
- I've been a free man. Been
- I've never abandoned the novel. Abandoned
- In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. Curmudgeon
- In England people are very proud of being very stupid. England
- Making a book is such a big enterprise. Big
- Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. Book
- Nothing was made in Trinidad. Inspirational
- One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. Always Try
- Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. Anyone
- Writing has to support itself. Inspirational
- Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that… Africa
- I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There… Been
- 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.… Aggression
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