S. Naipaul
S. Naipaul
people vision world
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.
views world mischief
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...
ifs hostility
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
self ideas expectations
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.
men world
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
memories adventure unique
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.
country moving law
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.