Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.

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Two

Waiting

A cat only has itself.

Cat

Africa has no future.

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.

Fun

Spirit

Thinking

Africans need to be kicked, that’s the only thing they understand.

Needs

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Details

Documentation

Writing

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Dad

Father

Stories

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.

Children

Ghouls

Grandmother

But everything of value about me is in my books.

Book

Values

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

People

Reading

Thinking

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Editors

Ends

Europe

Eye

Fall

Fate

Father

Feels

Feminine

Film

Firsts

Free Man

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Ghouls

Giving

Grandmother

Heart

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Hysteria

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Incompleteness

India

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Quotes by V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.

A cat only has itself.

Africa has no future.

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.

Africans need to be kicked, that’s the only thing they understand.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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