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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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Writers should provoke disagreement.

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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