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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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad but I will evade that fate yet.
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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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