Top 26 Amit Chaudhuri Quotes
#1. History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.
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#2. Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.
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#3. I ... take a selfie with him; two, to be safe. My lips are parted, as if I'm poking a dead thing to see if it'll come to life; it's the phone I'm attempting to keep at a distance. He's smiling faintly, as if amuse by some exotic piece of wildlife.
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#4. This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.
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#5. History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history.
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#6. Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.
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#7. He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.
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#8. The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.
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#9. The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world.
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#10. I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.
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#11. Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note.
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#12. The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali's appetite for the bizarre, the uncanny.
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#13. Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.
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#14. All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.
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#15. Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.
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#16. The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food.
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#17. [G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.
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#18. Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.
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#19. ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.
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#20. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
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#21. This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.
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#22. the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime
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#23. Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.
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#24. Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.
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#25. Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.
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#26. On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep's mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms bent as if she were swimming to the edge of a lake; his mother lay on her back, her feet (one of which had a scar on it) arranged in the joyous pose of a dancer.
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