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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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 came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The past has to be seen to be dead or the past will kill.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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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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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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