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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

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I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

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I will say I am the sum of my books.

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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

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It is important not to trust people too much.

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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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