V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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The cat with gloves catches no mice.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.
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I'm a bit of a propagandist.
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A cat only has itself.
