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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
The truth is, we are all capable of terrible things. But we are also capable of great kindness.
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The more you read, the more you will see that the same stories are told over and over again, just with different characters and settings.
"A story is a way to say something that cannot be said any other way."
"The best stories are those that make us question our own lives."
"In the end, we are all just stories."
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
The story of my upbringing is the story of how a half-baked Indian is made.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
A good book is an event in my life.
I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
History is not just the story of the past, but a mirror to the present and a window to the future.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
