"All I did was write it down, one……" — Jeet Thayil
"All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay."
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9 Quotes by Jeet Thayil
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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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My religion is no way of knowing me.
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Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to,…
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How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the…
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Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the…
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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…
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We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
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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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