"A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre."

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Source : Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

Vikas Swarup

#Artist Quotes #Fit Quotes #Genre Quotes

“I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.”
“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 344, 1895.
“Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.”
“Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.”
“I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.”
“You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.”
“I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.”
“The propensity to do good things is a choice.”

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