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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

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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