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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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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 that as well.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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