I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
V. S. NaipaulThe melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
V. S. NaipaulIt has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
V. S. NaipaulArgentine 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.
V. S. Naipaul