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“Writing badly will make you ill.

— Jeet Thayil

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You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke.

Yet, this is a small price I have had to pay for seeking to uphold the freedom of speech and expression.

You may lose something, but you gain a double perspective, a double vision. Especially in terms of writing, or in terms of art, I think it's tremendously useful.

It had people from all over the country and the world. The great thing about Bombay as a city was it was a magnet for anybody with talent, or ambition or hunger, or beauty, or intelligence.

it came pretty late In a sense it is good. It won’t get over my head.

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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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