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Checkout quotes by Romesh Gunesekera on World

• ‟ Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

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• ‟ It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

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• ‟ People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

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• ‟ We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

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• ‟ I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

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• ‟ Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

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• ‟ Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.

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