V Naipaul Famous Quotes



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 Naipaul Quotations






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"A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism."
Burton Rascoe

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Sextus Propertius

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Dreams have as much influence as actions.
Stephane Mallarme

"The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion."
Blaise Pascal

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
Aeschylus

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you're ever selling your house, and some people come by, and a big rat comes out and he's dragging the rattrap because it didn't quite kill him, just tell the people he's your pet and that's a trick you taught him."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe