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I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else.

— Khushwant Singh

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More quotes by Khushwant Singh

No, love is an ephemeral and illusive concept, it doesn't last; lust lasts.

Why not all three? I have worked hard on each (stated with pride and an endearing smile).

I have to teach myself to do nothing. In the last phase of a man's life, according to the Hindu tradition, you're meant to be a forest dweller.

I think humour can be a very lethal weapon.You make somebody a laughing stock and you kill him. But most journalists don't do it. They get angry, which doesn't serve the purpose.

I write what I believe in and don't care a damn about the consequences.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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