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"The world is always in movement."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."
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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
Experience
"It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut."
Heart
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"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."
Family
"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
Luck
"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
Creativity
"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."
Time
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