"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day."
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"Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well."
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"It is important not to trust people too much."
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"Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society."
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"Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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