#do

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

#came #center #come #had #hard

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beginning #business #define #did #even

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#done #gone #into #need #read

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#america #best #commitment #environment #freedom

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#cares #cartoon #day #doing #environment

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can. ↗

— Joe Namath

#best #doing #everything #i #i think

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports. ↗

— Joe Namath

#focused #i #outdoors #sports