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The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Been Coming Country French Had Including Island Landscape Language Myself People Really Recorded Spoken Thought Virtually Which Written

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The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Been Greatest Heart Provincial Writers

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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Athens Became Been Before Citizen City Commercial Cultural Echo How Human Ideal May Me Pedestrian Port Proportions Spain Walker Where

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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Absence All My Life Aware Been Conduct Continually Father Grief Her His Life Mother My Life Nearly Ninety Now Pride Still Strong Talks Who

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My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Aunts Background Been Brother Consists Died Family Father Had He Immediate Me Mother Must Only Quite Really She Sister Sisters Then Twin Two Well Widow Young

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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Been Contained Fragmented Had Languages Might Only Writer I Am

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The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Been Farce Long Myth

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I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Been Cynicism Developed Different Different Kind England Excessive Gone Kind Might Nostalgia Origins Them Think Totally Would Writer I Think

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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: All My Life Arrived Beach Been Feel Get Home Life My Life Sea Strong Theater Thing Until Very

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As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

~Deron Williams

Topics: Autism Been Child Experience Having Parent Really Tough Your Your Child

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