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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"
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"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."
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"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
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"I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
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"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy."
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"I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries."
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"The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh."
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"Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
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"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
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"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
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"We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal."
Family
"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"The world is always in movement."
World
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
Comedy
"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
"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."
Experience
"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."
Life
"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."
Attitude
"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."
Time
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature
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