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The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

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Elizabeth Strout

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

Actually, Character, Characters, Order, Use
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It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.

Fall, Hard Work, Love, Quite, Right, Writing

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Giving, Giving Up, Hope, Love, Stop, Suspect

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

Came, Feelings, Hung, Life, Person, Waiting

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

Belonged, Facts, Matter, Stories

I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.

Judge, Judging, Mean, State, Succeed, Understanding
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