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.
AKHIL SHARMAPeople often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.
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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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I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
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As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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