More From V. S. Naipaul
- "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.’"
- "Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
- "Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society."
More In Dreams
- "The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."― Margaret Sanger
- "Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."― Charles Baudelaire
- "Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world."― Mitt Romney