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"The world is always in movement."
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"What is the world coming to?"
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
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"What I think and what the world thinks is totally different."
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"Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world."
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"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
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"In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
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"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."
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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."
Time
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
Career
"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
"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
"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
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature
"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are."
Family
"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."
People
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