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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.”

1. “We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.”

2. “The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “It’s a huge headache – the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.”

3. “It’s a huge headache – the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.”

4. “Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “I need to have some depth in my characters. That’s why they are all Bengalis. I can’t imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.”

5. “I need to have some depth in my characters. That’s why they are all Bengalis. I can’t imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Amidst one’s daily clutter, one doesn’t usually reflect on the splendour of being free because – naturally – one has to get on with the business of living.”

6. “Amidst one’s daily clutter, one doesn’t usually reflect on the splendour of being free because – naturally – one has to get on with the business of living.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Advances don’t fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn’t really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I’m certainly not going to say no. But it hasn’t come my way as yet, and I’m not heartbroken.”

7. “Advances don’t fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn’t really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I’m certainly not going to say no. But it hasn’t come my way as yet, and I’m not heartbroken.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Well, life is dark, isn’t it? Mostly, it’s dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.”

8. “Well, life is dark, isn’t it? Mostly, it’s dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless – why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?”

9. “Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless – why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it’s horrible.”

10. “Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it’s horrible.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself – that is, if he reveals himself at all.”

11. “No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself – that is, if he reveals himself at all.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.”

12. “People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “I don’t think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.”

13. “I don’t think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “He didn’t want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face.”

14. “He didn’t want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.”

15. “I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.”

16. “For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.”

17. “So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.”

18. “You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “The inhabitants of this world moved so much, ceaselessly and without sanity, and realized only with the last flicker of their reason that they had not lived. Endless movement, much like the uncaring sea, transfers to alien places, passages to distant shores, looking for luck, not sensing that heaven was in their minds.”

19. “The inhabitants of this world moved so much, ceaselessly and without sanity, and realized only with the last flicker of their reason that they had not lived. Endless movement, much like the uncaring sea, transfers to alien places, passages to distant shores, looking for luck, not sensing that heaven was in their minds.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.”

20. “Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous.”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “The railway station provided them all that they needed: flatulence-generating food, tea, water, paan, shelter, electricity, social intercourse, seating, mucky toilets – and drugs, coolies, women and children for sale at most reasonable prices. What more could a man ask for?”

21. “The railway station provided them all that they needed: flatulence-generating food, tea, water, paan, shelter, electricity, social intercourse, seating, mucky toilets – and drugs, coolies, women and children for sale at most reasonable prices. What more could a man ask for?”

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Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.”

22. “God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee Quote: “Indecision will be your epitaph.”

23. “Indecision will be your epitaph.”

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

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