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

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Most people are nice and just want to have a chat."

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Explore more quotes by V. S. Naipaul

"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."

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"We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal."

Family, Father, People, Nothing, Thinking

"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."

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"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."

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"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."

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"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."

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"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."

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"In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India."

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"The world is always in movement."

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"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."

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