"I could meet dreadful people and end up……" — V.S. Naipaul
"I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul has 115 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when…
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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…
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the…
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for…
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the…
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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…
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own…
— James A. Baldwin
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
— Ray Bradbury
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
— A. S. Byatt
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
— Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
— Albert Camus
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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