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"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."
"When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation."
"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
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"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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