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You can't deny what you've learned you can't deny your travels you can't deny the nature of your life.
V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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