"There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but Iâ€™m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. Iâ€™m uneasily somewhere in the middle."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Anxiety Quotes #India Quotes #Selling Quotes

“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
“Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.”
“Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jonesâ€™ (aka Amiri Barakaâ€™s) play Dutchman. Youâ€™d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didnâ€™t make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death.”
“But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.”
“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”
“An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.”
“I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.”
“Freedom is always wise.”

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