- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've immersed myself in reading more and more of American literature, but no editor has asked me to comment on Jonathan Franzen or Jennifer Egan. It is assumed I'm an expert on writers who need a little less suntan lotion at the beach.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.
- Essay
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- Nov 07, 2020
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
- Engage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020