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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
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
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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