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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020