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"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."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"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
"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
"I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories."
Time
"When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough."
Creativity
"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
"I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them."
Reading
"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."
Relationship
"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
"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
"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
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