"From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer."

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Source : Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House

Caryl Phillips

#Reading Quotes #Home Quotes #Writing Quotes

“For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.”
“If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.”
“To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.”
“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue â€” liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
“I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.”
“There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”
“Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.”
“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”

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