Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

#1. 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.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

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

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

Upamanyu Chatterjee

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

Upamanyu Chatterjee

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

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#6. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Elmore Leonard

#7. 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.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#8. You don't look like anyone special at all, I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

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

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#10. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Alice Munro

#11. I practically left my skin in a puddle on the floor. Seriously?! A man's voice echoed in the cavern, and I had no idea where he was. I fought the urge to run screaming around the cellar like a beheaded chicken with vocal cords, then took a deep breath and winced.

April White

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

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#13. 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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#14. I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

Ruben Studdard

#15. Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality ... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

Walter Matthau

#16. I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Michel De Montaigne

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

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#18. 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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#19. Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.

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#20. 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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#21. Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

Gwynne Dyer

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

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#23. Bullets don't differentiate between good or bad. They are equal opportunity killers.

Caridad Pineiro

#24. I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

Shane Koyczan

#25. 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?

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#26. 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.

Upamanyu Chatterjee