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At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Always Been Beginning Carol Central Christmas Depression Embodies Way Will

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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: America Became Born Country Medical Medical School Met Moved Parents Professors Researchers School Secular Top Turkey Were

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I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Became Been Boarding Boarding School Covered Grandmother Grew Hearing Her Instead Livelihood Man Person School She Teacher Thesis Up Who Would Wrote

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I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Back Become Could Doubted Educated Felt Grateful Held How Me Never Parents Read Religion Scientists Superstition Taught Three True Well Were Who Writer

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I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them - for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying 'Allah Protect Us.'

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Agnostic Allah Always Annoyed Been Bus Certain Created Did Even Example Father For Example Get God Great Intelligence Jobs Known Less More Mother People Protect Saw Saying She Some Sticker Than Them Thought Universe Us Were Would

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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Could Identified Illusion Iraq Moment Seemed September September 11Th Short-Lived

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Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Awkwardness Consciousness False Position

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'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Awkward Both Exempt Implies Nobody Solidarity

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Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Anyone Around Awkwardness Difficult Either Identify Injustice Look Realization Victim Who World You

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'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Anguish Being Girl Gone Good Good Husband Good Wife Husband Impossibility Much Near Wife

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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