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“I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.”

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I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

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“If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).”

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“And so they entwined their lives to drink from the pools of each other’s sadness. From these special watering holes, each man drew strength.”

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“Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed…

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A new car is not going to change your life.

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She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How…

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“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.”

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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and…

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“Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.”

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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England…

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“The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.”

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“Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a "holiday" in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a…

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