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Join the roomIan Archie McDonald FRSL, AA was a poet and writer who described himself as "Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction". His ancestry on his father's side was Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother's side. His only novel, The Humming-Bird Tree, first published in 1969, is considered a classic of Caribbean literature. He won the Guyana Prize for Literature three times for his poetry. He also received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies and a Theatre Guild of Guyana Lifetime Achievement Award.
“It is an easy, and terrible, mistake to make, to think your will is God’s will.”
“These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.”
“Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.”
“The laws of economics are subject to the laws of physics. The physical processes that govern this planet and the continued life upon it place as stringent an upper limit on economic growth as the speed of light does on our knowledge of the universe.”
“Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”
“Ayşe Erkoç learned long ago that the secret of doing anything illicit in Istanbul is to do it in full public gaze in the clear light of day. No one ever questions the legitimacy of the blatant.”
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