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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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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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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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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