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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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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,…
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be…
— Tom Coburn
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
— Ezra Pound
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Unknown Author
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.
— Mae West
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because…
— Nat King Cole
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he…
— Burl Ives
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Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from…
— Dennis Miller
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