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"It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories."
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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."
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"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."
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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
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"Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there."
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"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."
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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"
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"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."
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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
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"Every travel gives me new thought into life."
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"Every new travel brings new transformation."
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"You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense."
People

"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."
Computer

"Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story."
Thought

"The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation."
Identity

"Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books."
Winning

"At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention."
Family

"For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase."
Thought

"For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married."
Health

"Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians."
Experience

"It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories."
Travel
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