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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1932

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