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One Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work…
- One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
- One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
- It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after…
- There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered…
- The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them…
- It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after…
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