- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
- Bad Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.
- Deplorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020