Author: V. S. Naipaul

Picture Quotes

Image Gallery

Quotes

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

- V. S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

- V. S. Naipaul

It is important not to trust people too much.

It is important not to trust people too much.

- V. S. Naipaul

The world is always in movement.

The world is always in movement.

- V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

- V. S. Naipaul

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

- V. S. Naipaul

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

- V. S. Naipaul

Similar Authors: