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The best thing about the book is it shows how VS Naipaul was abusive towards his wife. He allowed the author to have access to his wife's diaries & he never interfered in writing the truth. Naipaul could be anything but he was not a hypocrite like many other writers of this age. https://t.co/skYxoaMQiZ
— Sumirti (@sumirti) August 12, 2018
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"Vidia says I didn't mind the abuse. I certainly did mind." ~ Margaret Murray
— Shailja Patel (@shailjapatel) August 12, 2018
"...Naipaul’s favorite word of contempt is “n****r.” ...Mr. French makes this plain in his book, quoting Naipaul’s use of it on a number of occasions."
#Naipulhttps://t.co/5fH4ZetFEr
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“from the start, he was a laureate of humiliation.” this is good, @dwightgarner on vs (i wrote this as “bs” - freudian slip) naipaul.https://t.co/Q5f7Ef3eoC pic.twitter.com/6W5w0Ai0G4
— Soraya Roberts (@SorayaRoberts) August 12, 2018
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Rest in peace, V.S.Naipaul, an unfiltered realist.
— Lady Saucemeness (@saumya_96) August 12, 2018
I’m halfway through “In A Free State” right now, and he’s off to a free state of his own. That’s the good thing about being a writer. You always stay alive through your work.
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...A cool &sometimes snappish mediator btwn continents. Indian by descent, Trinidadian by birth, Naipaul attended Oxford &lived in London, where he came to wear elegant suits &move in elite social circles.“When I talk about being an exile or a refugee I’m not using a metaphor" https://t.co/DmNSc72pgd
— Amy Grace Loyd (@AmyGracieL) August 12, 2018
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FOX NEWS: Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies at 85 pic.twitter.com/WLjhpWLvWx
— Tania Shah (@Sam_Yes_VSS) August 12, 2018
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Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist V.S. Naipaul Dies at 85: Report https://t.co/3OG8WgLqzB pic.twitter.com/svQYlYokzQ #losangeles #News #RMRealtor #KTLA
— RaviMadhwani (@RMRealtor) August 12, 2018
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Oh, like you've never given an interview with the most famous literary magazine in the world about looking for satisfaction from sex workers and a mistress while your wife was dying of cancer. https://t.co/sGih4PJboQ
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 12, 2018
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V.S. Naipaul embodied honest writing. He was a man who was brutally truthful in everything he did and suffered for it.
— Terror House Magazine (@terrorhousemag) August 12, 2018
RIP. https://t.co/bv3OzcTvSj
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Nobel Prize winner novelist VS Naipaul passes away, President & PM condoled demise of Naipaul https://t.co/9zrPTcTSF6 pic.twitter.com/4Gv7Cl4WzY
— Epilogue Press (@epiloguepress) August 12, 2018
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V.S. Naipaul, Who Explored Colonialism Through Unsparing Books, Dies at 85 https://t.co/ZzIYx9TX1C
— algeriades (@algeriades) August 12, 2018
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This is the gift V.S. Naipaul gave me https://t.co/ed3PATGILj pic.twitter.com/Dehix6BCiE
— Leonardo da Vinci (@leodavinci2000) August 12, 2018
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Adieu V S Naipaul the cosmopolitan writer
— METHIL RENUKA (@METHILRENUKA) August 12, 2018
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A man who was subject to intellectual obsessions but a great writer who will leave a vaccume https://t.co/fMZHnRCF8D
— Shubhranshu Singh (@ShubSinghKing) August 12, 2018
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BBC News - Obituary: VS Naipaul https://t.co/oUM8sTEOw6
— Michelle Newby Lancaster (@txbooklover) August 12, 2018
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This is the gift V.S. Naipaul gave me @CNN https://t.co/2QqKqpkmuZ
— Amar Bahadoorsingh (@ABahadoorsingh) August 12, 2018
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V.S. Naipaul journeyed on yesterday in London at 85
— Cosmos Parris (@cobanna) August 12, 2018
"When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day," he told Reuters in 2010.
Rest In Peace V.S. Naipaul
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Yet Mr. Naipaul exempted neither colonizer nor colonized from his scrutiny. He wrote of the arrogance and self-aggrandizement of the colonizers, yet exposed the self-deception and ethical ambiguities of the 'liberator' https://t.co/M0CF8Emy75
— علی (@Gaamuk) August 12, 2018
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The surefire way to spot people who have never read Naipaul is to look for those who think he "abandoned " Trinidad or talked down to "third world societies". There is nothing in his writing that points to this.... https://t.co/flNaGpdSZQ
— Darryn Boodan (@DarrynBoodan) August 12, 2018
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Only a Muslim would think that...Naipaul's view of Islam & its victims was spot on for those with unbiased minds. https://t.co/sP1dJYf115
— Aryan Paladin 🕉 (@AryanPaladin) August 12, 2018
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