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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

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The world is always in movement.

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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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