You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.
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. NaipaulI could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V. S. NaipaulIn England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul