- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say I am the sum of my books.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is always in movement.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
But everything of value about me is in my books.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020