V.S. Naipaul Quotes
The World Is What It Is; Men Who Are Nothing, Who Allow Themselves To Become Nothing, Have No Place In It ...
It Wasn't Only The Sand Drifts And The Mud And The Narrow, Winding, Broken Roads Up In The Mountains. There Was All That Business At The Frontier Posts, All That Haggling In The Forest Outside Wooden Huts That Flew Strange Flags. I Had To Talk Myself And My Peugeot Past The Men With Guns
Just To Drive Through Bush And More Bush. And Then I Had To Talk Even Harder, And Shed A Few More Bank Notes And Give Away More Of My Tinned Food, To Get Myself
And The Peugeot
Out Of The Places I Had Talked Us Into.
Some Of These Palavers Could Take Half A Day ...
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