Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside. ✨ V. S. Naipaul …

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Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). A House For Mr Biswas: Picador Classic, p.290, Pan Macmillan
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.190, Pan … ▶
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father … ▶
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally … ▶
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India, p.14, Pan Macmillan

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). A House For Mr Biswas: Picador Classic, p.290, Pan Macmillan

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