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"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
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"Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag."
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"God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation."
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"You are the grand estate and administrator of - now."
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"You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none."
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"The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari]."
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"Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."
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"Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living."
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"I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures."
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"The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth."
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"For everything you embrace, there is a consequence."
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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
Darkness
"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."
Home
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
War
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
Expression
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
Home
"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
Past
"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
Time
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
Time
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
Research
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