"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."

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"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."

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"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"

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"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."

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"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."

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