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" The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. "

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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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" My life is short. I can't listen to banality. "

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" 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. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

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" You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it. "

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" One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? "

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