"I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in."

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Porochista Khakpour

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“I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.”
“To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.”
“I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.”
“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Source : "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.
“We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.”
“From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.”
“After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.”
“I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.”

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