"Drugs are a bad habit, so why do……" — Jeet Thayil
"Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered."
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9 Quotes by Jeet Thayil
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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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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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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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