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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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I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to…
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
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I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.
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I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
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But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that,…
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Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain,…
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This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.
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Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese?
— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic
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