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Quotes from Our Universal Civilization — V. S. Naipaul

1932–2018 United Kingdom

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The universal civilization has been a long time in the making. It wasn't always universal; it wasn't always as attractive as it is today.

Our Universal Civilization (1990)

This idea of the pursuit of happiness is at the heart of the attractiveness of the civilization to so many outside it or on its periphery.

Our Universal Civilization (1990)

I never formulated the idea of the universal civilization until 11 years ago, when I traveled for many months in a number of non-Arab Muslim countries — Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan — to try to understand what had driven them to their rage.

Our Universal Civilization (1990)

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