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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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 made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side I know only that some of them came from Nepal
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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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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
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