"After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities."

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Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

V. S. Naipaul

#Ideas Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.”
“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.”
“People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.”
“I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
“I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.”

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