The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Impossibility of progress The world

Author

V.S. Naipaul

Source

A Bend in the River

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean

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Citation

Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

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Thomas Pynchon
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Gravity's Rainbow
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

Another quote about The world

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related.

Fred Rogers

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Interconnectedness of all people The world
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Fred Rogers
Source
2002 Dartmouth commencement address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Commencement address
Language
English
Time
2002 2000s 21st century
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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.