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The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.

~Elif Batuman

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Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

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You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

~Elif Batuman

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There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.

~Elif Batuman

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It's kind of an embarrassing story - that's why it's called 'The Idiot.' But looking back at your past self, you see that this person had reasons for everything she did. There's a whole lot of awkwardness, but really, what should one be embarrassed about?

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It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.

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People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

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There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

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When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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