V.S. Naipaul

Quotes

• “What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw...”
• “...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. B...”
• “And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and I became restless. ...”
• “To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking...”
• “I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I work...”
• “I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You re...”
• “Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They li...”
• “The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fea...”
• “It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravel...”
• “paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer”
• “Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.”
• “Small things start us in new ways of thinking”
• “How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.”
• “The chaos lies all within.”