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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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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