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"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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"Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change your feeling."
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"Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress."
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"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
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"It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power."
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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
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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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