"I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers."

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Kiran Desai

#Tennessee Quotes #Truman Quotes #American Writer Quotes

“How deep is your game?”
“I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.”
“Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.”
“When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.”
“If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries to reduce their emissions. Achievement of substantial reduction in this way implies international transfers of wealth on a scale well beyond anything in recorded history. There is no effective political support for such a Herculean effort, particularly in the United States.”
“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”
“Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”
“The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.”

Source : "TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

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