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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection it en
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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

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Trinidad and Tobago Flag This quote is written / told by V. S. Naipaul somewhere between August 17, 1932 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from Trinidad and Tobago. The author also have 22 other quotes.

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