Too late Quote by Jeet Thayil

““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 does. He makes things. A more pertinent question, though pertinence is hardly the point at this point: why did he make humans? Now there’s a question. He made us as a bulwark against loneliness and boredom. Too late he discovered we were in fact the opposite. We augment boredom; we deepen loneliness.””

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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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“In the sky was a sliver of moon. What kind of moon? A moon like a clipped fingernail, like a smudge of powdered sugar, like a yellow laddoo, like a shattered dinner plate, like the tusk of a wounded mammoth, like a scimitar buried in the enemy’s skull, like a horned demon drowned in blood, like a fallen warrior’s silver…

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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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My religion is no way of knowing me.

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