Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. ~ V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1932 - )
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. ~ V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1932 - )
“It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.” ~ V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1932 - )
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. ~ V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1932 - )
I knew he was a writer, we had all his books in the library, but it never really clicked. And I remember being in the library and taking out one of his books and then I realized -- he did this for a living. ~ V. S. Naipaul (August 17, 1932 - )
Slow down you're doing fineYou can't be everything you want to beBefore your time. ~ Billy Joel (May 09, 1949 - )
Louisiana has [no] monopoly on rogues, rapscallions, shakedowns and kickbacks. Nor is it the only place where a few officials have endeared themselves to the electorate by means of the utter disorder of their private lives. ~ Jon Nordheimer
