Day life Quote by V.S. Naipaul

““I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.””

V.S. Naipaul

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“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela,…

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“Misir’s first story was about a man who had been out of work for months and was starving. His five children were starving; his…

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