Where jargon turns living ...

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don\'t have causes. They only have enemies.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

V. S. Naipaul

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Never complain and never explain.

Benjamin Disraeli

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert Schuller

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I've never abandoned the novel.

V. S. Naipaul

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

V. S. Naipaul

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

V. S. Naipaul

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V. S. Naipaul

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul