Sexuality Quotes by Jeet Thayil

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“I've always liked the awkward young men and I'm no casteist, god no. I like boys, circumcised, uncircumcised, washed, unwashed, touchable, untouchable, straight, bent, curved, I mean, it's all love, isn't it, in the end?”

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Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

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“You die. You get old and die. Your anger curdles, your grief dries, your talent fades on the page. Your cells metastasise into an army dedicated to the overthrow of you. You become dependent on paid strangers for the maintenance of your blood and your brittle bones. You understand that thought is the enemy, the source of all lesions, tumours,…

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Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut…

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“The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.”

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“Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.”

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“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…

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“To want is to wait, as I do in the place I know, my breathing loud and single as the room, its smell of…

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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…

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“There’s been some discussion as to why God created the world. Let me clear it up. He made the world because that’s what he…

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“In the sky was a sliver of moon. What kind of moon? A moon like a clipped fingernail, like a smudge of powdered sugar,…

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I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

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

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