"An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.” ~V. S. Naipaul
"One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all." -- V. S. Naipaul, New York Times, (24 April 1994)
BIO
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas in Trinidad, on this day in 1932.
"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)