"I found Bombay and opium, the drug and……" — Jeet Thayil
"I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay"
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Jeet Thayil
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9 Quotes by Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil has 9 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Bombay Quotes
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Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest…
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the…
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All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
— Jeet Thayil
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
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Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia;…
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so…
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune…
— Tahir Shah
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Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic…
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Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are…
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He…
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I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
— Warren Zevon
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George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war…
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