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he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it, too—at
Akshay
Observers have more objective view of things and can see a bigger picture than the one involved
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Ayad Akhtar
“As always, the interpretation has more to do with the one interpreting than the one being interpreted”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Sara  Ackerman
“Maybe that was the secret to dying—to live a life with so much heart that, when you go, you are never really gone.”
Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret

Ayad Akhtar
“The established majority takes its "we" image from a minority of its best and shapes a "they" image of the despised outsiders from a minority of their worst.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar
“She was put off that everyone always asked where she was from and never seemed bothered that they had no idea what she was talking about when she told them.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar
“Every good story has the same shape. The beginning establishes a goal, the more tangible the better. In the middle we watch the fight toward that goal. The end is what happens when it’s been reached, or when reaching it’s finally failed. What I always say when I teach is: the longer the middle, the better the story. The middle is when we still don’t know the outcome. That’s when we care the most about what’s happening. The longer you can keep the audience engaged in the pursuit without actually resolving that pursuit—that’s real mastery.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

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