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"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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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."
"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."
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
"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."
"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."
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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