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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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 have a very small public.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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