"An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally."

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Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

V. S. Naipaul

#Lying Quotes #Facts Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“Anyone one loves is a potential enemy ...”
“Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.”
“I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.”
“I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only missed one day so far.”
“Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.”
“My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.”
“Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.”
“'Bionic Woman' really enriched my career. It was a big, amazing thing to do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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