Quotes by : V.S. Naipaul

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys....

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

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.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for....

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

For years and years, even during the time of my first visit in 1962, it has been said that Calcutta was....

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....