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    All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

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    Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust

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    Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

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    How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

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    I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

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    Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

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    The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

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    We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

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    God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.

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    He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

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    If a nation does not care for its past it does not care for its future; and it if does not care for its poets it does not care for anything at all.

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    Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?

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    I've always liked the awkward young men and I'm no casteist, god no. I like boys, circumcised, uncircumcised, washed, unwashed, touchable, untouchable, straight, bent, curved, I mean, it's all love, isn't it, in the end?

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    So when Carl said, Why do you take drugs? she told him what she thought, told him the truth because the least such a question deserved was a real answer. She said, Oh, who knows, there are so many good reasons and nobody mentions them and the main thing nobody mentions is the comfort of it, how good it is to be a slave to something, the regularity and the habit of addiction, the fact that it's an antidote to loneliness, and the way it becomes your family, gives you mother love and protection and keeps you safe.

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    The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.

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    Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.