"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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"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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"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
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