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V. S. Naipaul Quotes about Waiting

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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

V. S. Naipaul
Waiting, Watches, Life Is
V. S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2000). “Miguel Street”, p.88, Heinemann

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.

V. S. Naipaul
Men, Two, Waiting
V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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