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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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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 coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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