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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Book, Books, Like, Quits, Quitting, Westernized
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India always changes people, and I have been no exception

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The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

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The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

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Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.

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All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

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