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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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