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I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

Akhil Sharma

I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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Attribute Based Character Composite Dialogue Memories Note Simply Spoken Taken Word
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious
As a human being living one’s life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.
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Being Expectation Human Life Living More Open Rain relief
We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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Afraid Become Fortunate Other People Think
Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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Assume Community Female Many Person Reader Same Sophisticated
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.
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Change Completely Country Difficult Dust Feel Light Monsoon More Rain Settle
The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Country Different Dominant Importance Indian Life Monsoon Rain Such
If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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Abortion Breaking Community News Newspaper Obvious People Read
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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Always Hurt Long Themselves Thinking Well
It’s easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don’t want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
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Act Be Kind Fear Grow Up Out Want
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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Doctor Grand Honesty Intelligence Intern Life Profound Question Resonate Struggled Voice
When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?
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Better Done Good Person Sometimes Success Wonder Work
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
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Able Child Children Create Enough First Information Legible Narrator
My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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Accomplish Approach Aware Birthday Come Constant Gone Little Mange

I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

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I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

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