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Inspirational Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- Small things start us in new ways of thinking
- But everything of value about me is in my books.
- We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
- All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
- The writer is all alone.
- It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
- Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
- What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
- The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
- I have a very small public.
- I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
- I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
- I've been a free man.
- I've never abandoned the novel.
- In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
- Making a book is such a big enterprise.
- Nothing was made in Trinidad.
- One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
- Writing has to support itself.
- I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.
- I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
- The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
- I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
- I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
- A cat only has itself.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento