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1932, August 1932, August 17th 1932, England, North America, …the Caribbean,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Latin America,
the world, the Americas,
Trinidad,
the Northern Hemisphere,
the Lesser Antilles,
the Antilles,
Chaguanas,
Regional Corporations and Municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago,
the West Indies, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal Group 6, the area using the NANP, the Atlantic Standard Time region, North America,
Caroni
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A Bend in the River, In a Free State, Miguel Street, A House for Mr Biswas, Half a Life, …An Area of Darkness, The Enigma of Arrival, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Mystic Masseur, Guerrillas, Beyond Belief, The Loss of El Dorado, A Turn in the South, The Writer and the World, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, Half a Life, The Middle Passage, A Flag on the Island
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person; Hindu; artist; writer; journalist; …
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"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."; "This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."; "The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."; "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."; "The world is always in movement."; …"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."; "The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."; "That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do."; "One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."; "I will say I am the sum of my books."; "I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."; "I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."; "I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."; "Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."; "But everything of value about me is in my books."; "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."; "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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