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Only Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a…
- We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to…
- How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and…
- In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the…
- A cat only has itself.
- Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
- Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing…
- The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
- Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the…
- At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
- 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…
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