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I am moonlighting for the Buddha.
John Burdett / Novelist
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Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
John Burdett / Novelist
Ask Me
Firsts
Obvious
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The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
John Burdett / Novelist
Amazing Places
World
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I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
John Burdett / Novelist
Enlightenment
Sorry
Want
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Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
John Burdett / Novelist
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In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
John Burdett / Novelist
Intuitive
Poverty
Shapes
Understanding
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To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
John Burdett / Novelist
Buddhist
Contradiction
Mind
Contradictions
Exist
Cultivate
Forced
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Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.
John Burdett / Novelist
Expression
Glitter
Vegas
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Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
John Burdett / Novelist
Concrete
Glitter
Las Vegas
Vegas
Id
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There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
John Burdett / Novelist
Brilliant
Challenges
People
Plenty
Stressed
Literary
Novels
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If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
John Burdett / Novelist
Failed
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When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
John Burdett / Novelist
Coffins
Goes On
Light
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Expecting
Humility
Kind
Thinking
Brings
Finally
Leads
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Buddhism
Buddhist
Meditating
Talking
Thai
World Look People
Combined
Look World People
Monks
Studying
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The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.
John Burdett / Novelist
Body
Mind
World
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Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.
John Burdett / Novelist
Block
Enemy
Writing
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'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.'
John Burdett / Novelist
Advise
Agonizing
Block
Comfort
Novelists
Stuck
Enough Your Me
Aspiring
Disoriented
Shun
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Adore
Buddhism
Fascinated
Time Feel Know
Although
Read
Guess
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The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
John Burdett / Novelist
Loyalty
Car
House
Inspire
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Certainty
Commonplace
Generations
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Discovered
Total
Earlier
Lanka
Sri
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You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way
John Burdett / Novelist
Karma
Important
Mind
Suffering
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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?
John Burdett / Novelist
Attitude
Ambition
Driven
Essence
Materialistic
Thai
Understood
Why Not
Attitude Life Time
Totally
Least
Spent
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I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont 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?
John Burdett / Novelist
Average
Paris
Thinking
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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?
John Burdett / Novelist
Average
Bangkok
Disinterested
Publishers
Reader
Safe
Topics
Winner
Average American
Immensely
Plugging
Thriller
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Family
Alternatives
Asia
Capitalism
Farmers
Impossible
Income
Natural
Rice
Southeast Asia
Understood
World
Alternative
Living
Thing
Anyone
Find
Complex
Feed
Vast
Families
Global
Interdependent
Makes
Natural Thing
Network
Relationships
Southeast
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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.
John Burdett / Novelist
Amazing
Imagination
Assurance
Closure
Finals
Hard
Made
Path
Rehearsal
Safety
Safety Net
Subconscious
Understand
Also
Quite
Appalling
Bets
Works
Direction
Final
Fork
Hedge
Net
Realize
Safer
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