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I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

Khushwant Singh

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Khushwant Singh
Age: 98 †
Born: 1915
Born: August 15
Died: 2014
Died: March 20
Civil Servant
Journalist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Singh Khushwant
Leftist
Leftists
Voted
Communist
Sense
Never

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I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.
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That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living.
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I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.
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I was under police security for 15 years because I was on their hit-list. I opposed Khalistan because I thought it would be suicide for the Sikh community to demand a separate state, and they heard me because they knew I was one of them. I think I turned round at least the intelligent Sikh's point of view and that gave me enormous satisfaction.
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I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.
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Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.
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I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.
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Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.
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I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
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I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.
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I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances? I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.
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I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.
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I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.
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No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.
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I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.
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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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[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions.
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I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.
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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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