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V. S. Naipaul quotes about world

Trinidadian Novelist August 17, 1932

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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.... It wasn't only the sand drifts and the mud and the narrow, winding, broken roads up in the mountains. There was all that business at the frontier posts, all that haggling in the forest outside wooden huts that flew strange flags. I had to talk myself and my Peugeot past the men with guns -- just to drive through bush and more bush. And then I had to talk even harder, and shed a few... V. S. Naipaul
Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind? V. S. Naipaul
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You... V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we..."
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. V. S. Naipaul
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Sum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I..."
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. V. S. Naipaul
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow..."
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. V. S. Naipaul
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
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves..."
Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside. V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The world is always in movement."
The world is always in movement. V. S. Naipaul

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