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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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 profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.
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