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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

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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.

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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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