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“I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.”

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Any real piece of writing is an act of courage.

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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

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“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

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We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,…

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All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

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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…

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Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.…

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The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

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