Top 16 Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

#1. Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

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#2. Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

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#3. So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

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#4. Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

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#5. Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.

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#6. I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.

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#7. For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

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#8. Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.

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#9. We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

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#10. I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

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#11. Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

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#12. Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

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#13. I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

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#14. It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

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#15. The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

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#16. People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

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