Jeet Thayil Quotes

#1. Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust

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#2. We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

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#3. I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical.

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#4. My religion is no way of knowing me.

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#5. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.

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#6. The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done

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#7. How will the ships navigate
without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were
dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,
was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,
unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

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#8. All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

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#9. Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known
and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't
separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate
their human and dog natures.

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#10. He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

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#11. I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

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#12. He talks in proverbs. There's nothing I can say in reply.

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#13. Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!

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