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"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."
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"Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today."
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Personal Development
"First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract."
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Personal Development
"You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
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Personal Development
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
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Personal Development
"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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Personal Development
"Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development."
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Personal Development
"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
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Personal Development
"Joblessness gives you liberty."
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Personal Development
"When you choose a career that is aligned with your passion, the work becomes irrelevant because anticipation and fulfillment can outweigh everything."
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Personal Development
"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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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
"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."
Writing
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
Comedy
"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
"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
"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
"I will say I am the sum of my books."
Books
"But everything of value about me is in my books."
Books
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