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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: trinidadian
Birth: August 17, 1932

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Home Child Night Feel House Place

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Eyes Time Game Hockey Ice Too Much

As we consider the shared values of the U.S. and India, due attention to the fundamental human right of religious freedom is of the utmost importance.

Freedom Attention Values India Right

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

Family I Am Me World Professional

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.

Joseph Stiglitz

Good Me Information Insight Market

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

Me Long Know Say Hand Okay

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Love Business Golf Doing You Play

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Nature Art Poetry Measure Emotion

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Habit World Common Sense Matters

France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.

American Dream American Dream Image

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.

Work Depression Grateful Me Succeed

I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.

Lenora Crichlow

Style Yourself Fashion Present View

I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.

Happy Suffer Calls

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