Quotes by Trinidadian Authors - Page 3

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer
V.S. Naipaul
He had a strange relationship with books. He had the notion that people who wrote novels were also lonely. He believed this more and more, reading between the lines of the novels he'd loved. Most books were about one kind of loneliness or another, about people who couldn't get what they wanted, people who found things hard, who were slow, or sad, or difficult. So he read most evenings, finding a comfort in following words written by someone like him.
Monique Roffey
Your thoughts are transparent.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.
Monique Roffey
Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.
Monique Roffey
I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
V.S. Naipaul
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of numbers. When it drops to ten again he waits for it to get back to eighteen. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten. Well, it gets back there. But he has wasted a quarter of his life. And all he's got out of his money is a little mathematical excitement.
V.S. Naipaul
The laws of men are not infallible.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.
Dionne Brand
Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
Amalie Howard
It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.
V.S. Naipaul
We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
so little of what anything means comes through words.
André Alexis
Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?
André Alexis
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall-- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing)
V.S. Naipaul
What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The future begins today.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
C.L.R. James
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Be the great person you were always meant to be.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Keep your passions burning brightly.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and I became restless. I decided to act, to challenge fate. (...) I gained courage; every afternoon I walked a little farther. And one day I got there.
V.S. Naipaul
But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
Nicki Minaj
Her brightest memories were his darkest recollections.
Aliyyah Eniath
Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.
André Alexis
People who copy you will always be one step behind.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Music is nectar for the soul.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
V.S. Naipaul
If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.
C.L.R. James
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...
V.S. Naipaul
Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.
Wayne Gerard Trotman