"I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands."
― V. S. Naipaul
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Success
More From V. S. Naipaul
- "It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually."
- "The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
- "Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well."
More In Success
- "We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."― Ronald Reagan
- "Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."― Booker T. Washington
- "Eighty percent of success is showing up."― Woody Allen