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"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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"Use time to discover who you are."
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"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
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"In afternoon if you close eyes it's doesn't mean there is dark outside and if you avoid or do not want see your wrong deeds and wrong character it's doesn't mean all Good in you."
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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart."
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"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
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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
"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
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
Self-Awareness
"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
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
Perception
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
Home
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
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