"The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody……" — V.S. Naipaul
"The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves."
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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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