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 - )
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast. ~ William T. Sherman
We currently have effective medicines to cure almost every major infectious disease. But we risk losing these valuable drugs and our opportunity to eventually control many infectious diseases because of increasing antimicrobial resistance. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
