The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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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.V. S. Naipaul
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The world is always in movement.
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