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"Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone."
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his work of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published m
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"A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others."
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"Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two."
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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"One isnt born ones self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peoples ideas — and you have to work through it all."
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"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."
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