Khushwant Singh Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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I've no patience with Hindi films. I find them so unreal. But some I was taken to, like Raj Kapoor's Satyam Shivam Sundaram.

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My mind is no dirtier than most men's. I am honest and I say it. Fantasising is a common phenomenon and there's no censorship here.

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When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

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I am trying hardest to see no one, because I find it tiresome. I have people descending on me and flattering me. I fall for flattery.

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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.

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I've always been indifferent to dressing. Amita Malik got it right when she put me among the worst dressed men in India. But yes, I am a born joker.

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Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

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But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

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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.

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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

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This is one of those things - a contradiction. It was an emotional issue for me. I was born and raised in a Sikh family. I still keep my beard and turban and identify myself with the Sikh community.

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