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V.S. Naipaul has 118 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,…
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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,…
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You…
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of…
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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…
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You…
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of…
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw…
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.
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Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity…
— Carl Jung
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Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
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I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
— Sally Field
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
— Tertullian
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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…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you,…
— Samuel Beckett
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We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous…
— Milan Kundera
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As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
— Luigi Pirandello
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