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Quotes from Friend of My Youth — Amit Chaudhuri

born 1962 India

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History is always lying before you, unnoticed: till you suddenly see it, as we do now.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Mahadev Govind Ranade. Leaving aside his air of self-importance, he looks marginally foreign, as all statues do.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Each view has a history. You sense you're where others have been.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Some books I buy for their title, others for brevity. I love short books - the way you know from the first page that it's going to end.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

I lie back. They've "refurbished" the room. I loathe the word, its blunt sound (as if someone with a cold were trying to say "furnished"), and don't say it without irony.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

An hour's a symbolic duration.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

I love churches in Bombay...they make me think of shadow. Of footfall on stone. In England, churches preside over their habitat till they're gratuitous.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amit Chaudhuri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.