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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
Essayist
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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