V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Writers should provoke disagreement.

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• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

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• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

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• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

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• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

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• If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

  

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• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

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• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
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• As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

  

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• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

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• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

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• Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

  

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• I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

  

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• I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

  

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  

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• And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

  

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• Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

  

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• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement