Quotes by : V.S. Naipaul

And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and....

The chaos lies all within.

How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties,....

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.....

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything....

I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding,....

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses....