Amit Chaudhuri Quotes

#1. I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

Erin Wasson

#2. Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.

Amit Chaudhuri

#3. The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food.

Amit Chaudhuri

#4. [G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Amit Chaudhuri

#5. Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Amit Chaudhuri

#6. ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

Amit Chaudhuri

#7. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Amit Chaudhuri

#8. This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Amit Chaudhuri

#9. Anybody can be nobody, but it takes a man to be somebody.

Eugene V. Debs

#10. the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime

Amit Chaudhuri

#11. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#12. Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

Amit Chaudhuri

#13. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#14. Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship.

Epicurus

#15. I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.

Shannon Miller

#16. Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

Amit Chaudhuri

#17. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#18. Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

Howard Florey

#19. Nice work," he said.
I grinned.
"You look like hell, though," he noted.
"I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. And that's when he heard the screaming. Screams came from inside the building. Blood-curdling screams. The kind you don't run to and investigate.

Josh Vasquez

#21. Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

Amit Chaudhuri

#22. I learned the tricks ... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

Isamu Noguchi

#23. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#24. This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

Amit Chaudhuri

#25. History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history.

Amit Chaudhuri

#26. This is what I had always dreamed marriage would be... Everything was absolutely perfect... for three short days.

April Cassidy

#27. The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

Umberto Eco

#28. Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

Amit Chaudhuri

#29. History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Amit Chaudhuri

#30. He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Amit Chaudhuri

#31. The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.

Amit Chaudhuri

#32. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3

Francine Rivers

#33. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#34. I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Amit Chaudhuri

#35. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#36. 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.

Amit Chaudhuri

#37. Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

Amit Chaudhuri