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" Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think. "
Peace
Think
Time
" I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. "
You
Talking
People
" If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed. "
You
Successful
Feel
" I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to. "
Time
Feel
Know
" In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not? "
Life
People
Attitude
" In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so. "
Impossible
Family
World
" In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking. "
Lost
Poverty
Thinking
" I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? "
Winner
Think
American
" It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path. "
Imagination
Safety
Path
" Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world. "
Talking
People
World
" Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. "
Vegas
America
Expression
" 'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.' "
Comfort
Writing
Security
" There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. "
Who
Stressed
People
" The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place. "
Amazing
Than
World
" To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. "
Exist
Contradictions
Only
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