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Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.
~ Neel Mukherjee
After
Extremely
Films
Hands
He
Intense
Left
Longing
Made
Nostalgia
Powerful
Right
Soul
Think
Your
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Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Affliction
Aware
Feel
Fiction
Form
Genres
Good
Hate
I Feel
Immigrant
Kind
Led
Nostalgia
Particular
Politics
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One writes what one can, or has to, write.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Write
Writes
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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Cause
Remember
Ridicule
Seems
Today
Tomorrow
Worse
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The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
~ Neel Mukherjee
Author
Bestseller
Better
Both
Charts
Copies
Frequency
Indicator
Money
Numbers
Public
Relentless
Right
Say
Some
Sum
Sure
Taste
Tell
Than
Us
White
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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
~ Neel Mukherjee
African
Also
Before
British
Congress
Corridor
Cunning
Fighters
Freedom
History
How
How Much
How Much Time
Independence
India
Long
Long Struggle
Many
Members
Much
Must
National
Once
Revealed
Rule
Say
Struggle
Terrorists
They Say
Those
Time
Tricky
Victors
Were
Written
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The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'
~ Neel Mukherjee
1960s
Elsewhere
India
Late
Lives
Movement
Others
Provides
Revolution
Strand
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To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.
~ Neel Mukherjee
About
Centre
Family
Given
Indian
Inevitably
Lives
Necessarily
Others
Political
Politics
Should
Soul
Story
Write
Writer
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To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Away
Book
Bored
Boredom
Cook
Day
Germ
Good
Head
I Think
Must
One Day
Place
Sit
State
Suddenly
Things
Think
Very
Write
Writers
You
Your
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When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Book
Go
Going
Tells
Well
Where
You
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Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Defines
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Place
Work
World
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Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
~ Neel Mukherjee
Any
Book
Buy
Difficult
Difficulties
Easy
Everyone
Job
Other
Privileged
Something
Very
Writing
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Had I guessed the trouble my name was going to cause a lot of people on the other side of the world, I would have changed it to something easier when I began writing books.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Began
Books
Cause
Changed
Easier
Going
Had
Lot
Name
Other
People
Side
Something
Trouble
World
Would
Writing
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I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
~ Ngaio Marsh
About
Acquired
Doing
Felt
Got
Long
Long Way
Lot
Never
New
New Zealand
Paint
Painting
Quite
Quite A Lot
Skill
Technical
Way
Zealand
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I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Always
Author
Bound
Come
End
He
He Or She
Keeping
Least
Make
Most
Name
Point
Seems
She
Unpleasant
Very
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I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
~ Ngaio Marsh
About
Act
Always
Been
Closely
Concerned
Disturbed
Everyday
Experiences
Find
Involuntary
Me
Most
My Own
Own
Reticence
Return
Self
Which
Writing
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If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.
~ Ngaio Marsh
About
Amount
Case
Each
Frightful
Know
Like
Research
Write
You
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What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Bug
Clever
Does
Had
Know
Light
Like
Little
Many
Mean
Meanings
Mind
Number
Parents
Water
Which
Words
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