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Amitava Kumar Quotes

For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: indian
Birth: March 17, 1963

Topics

Years Magical Realism Last Refuge

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

John Gresham Machen

Two Point Opposition Modern Chief

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

Life Live Best Moving Forward Moving

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

Skill Drawn Sets Writers

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

New York Brain You Go New Personal

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous.

Vision People Me Person Conservative

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Think Way Heroes Paint Modern Well

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Work Love Enjoy Earth Why Games

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Morning Heart Man Sweet Night Eye

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

Politics I Am Stupid Name Know Out

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

People Know Watching Like Themselves

Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.

Death Risks People Brain Problems

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Success Showing Up Up Success Is

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