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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.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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