Tarun Tejpal Quotes

#1. I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

#2. As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#3. Sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#4. Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#5. For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

Chili Davis

#6. Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.

David Mitchell

#7. It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#8. We will all lose everything, and perhaps then, by the very shape of our pain, we will earn it back.

Patrick Holland

#9. For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Lewis Mumford

#10. I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

Nadia Giosia

#11. You are not the one you see in the
mirror. You are the one who is
shining in the eyes of others

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#12. My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

Michelle MacLaren

#13. We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.
We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.
We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#14. alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral

Scott Turow

#15. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#16. Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#17. Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#18. We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Jean De La Bruyere

#19. Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is.

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#20. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.

Jean Kennedy Smith

#21. I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#22. Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

Tarun J. Tejpal

#23. I knew now there was no such thing as a biblioblackhole.
Everything written truly lived.
Every real word. Every real story.
You had to find your words. You had to find your story.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#24. All things come to those who lurk. Skulking is also an option.

Alex Gabriel

#25. No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

H. Bentley Glass