“I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.”
Half a Life (2001)
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, más conocido como V. S. Naipaul es un escritor británico, de origen trinitense-hindú, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2001.
“I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.”
Half a Life (2001)
“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html