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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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