I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
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I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
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When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
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I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
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