"I read many things. I read to fill……" — V.S. Naipaul
"I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
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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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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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