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Africa has no future.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Africa
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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