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"This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone."
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"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
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"Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years."
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"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."
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"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."
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"I was adored once too."
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"Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored."
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"Six books, my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."
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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."
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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
Imagination
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature
"I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents."
Relationship
"For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy."
Philosophy
"If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent."
Equality
"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."
Freedom
"It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics."
Ethics
"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
Understanding
"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."
Family
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