Karan Mahajan Quotes

By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it - and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?

Karan Mahajan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: April 24, 1984

Topics

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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

LifeMyselfBestDeathReadingTrue

The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

Mary Schapiro

TimeLionThinkLongRulesUrgency

The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.

Marvin Ammori

InnovationFreedomWithoutPlaying

We have a failed state in Syria.

Michael McCaul

StateSyriaFailed

I definitely feel like there's a lot of terrible things on the Internet, obviously. You can really pretty much find anything on there. It's pretty awful. And the crazy thing is that we don't even access that much of it - it's like the dark web or whatever. It's the other Internet that we don't even access.

Miles Heizer

CrazyInternetFeelYouFindDark

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

Louise Wilson

EnergyAttentionOnlyPressStore

For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.

Jonathan Levine

BestSchoolMeHigh SchoolFast

I never thought I would live this long.

Debbie Reynolds

LiveThoughtLongNeverWould

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Anne McCaffrey

TalentCrystalSingerTrioVery

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Allison Janney

WomenMenDressAmericanOfficeOut

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

William Scott

FeelToo MuchLibertyLostBecome

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

William Labov

AmericanYearsWellBeenHundred

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