V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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.
V. S. Naipaul
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
Scipio Africanus
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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
Joe Wright
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan Dundes
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
Theodore Roethke
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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.
V. S. Naipaul