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" Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. "
V. S. Naipaul
Art
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" Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. "
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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. "
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" Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. "
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" There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. "
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