V.S. Naipaul Quotes (10+)

Enjoy the best V.S. Naipaul Quotes. Quotations by V.S. Naipaul (Nobel Laureate in Literature)
Born: -

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming.

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

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

About the Author

Sir V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was a Trinidadian-British writer whose work explored themes of exile and the post-colonial condition. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001, he is best known for 'A House for Mr Biswas.'