Karan Mahajan Quotes - Page 2

• Está muy bien que digamos, como liberales, que todo debería conmovernos, pero lo cierto es que hay tantas cosas que compiten por nuestra atención.

  Karan Mahajan

  Atención, Muy Bien, Compitiendo

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  Karan Mahajan

  Space, People, Personality

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cuando estalla una bomba, hay mucha confusión y la gente a menudo no sabe que ha estallado. Durante mucho tiempo, la gente puede pensar que ha habido una avería eléctrica o que ha explotado otra cosa.

  Karan Mahajan

  Pensar, Largo, Gente

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• También creo que hay algo en la naturaleza gráfica y política de tales ataques, mezclada con el hecho de que todo parece completamente aleatorio para las víctimas.

  Karan Mahajan

  Pensamiento, Político, Víctima

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first fifty pages or so, and boasted some true linguistic genius at times, but none of those writers could occupy more than one mind at once.

  Karan Mahajan

  Mind, Genius, Excited

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I guess my point in general is that, if you look closely, who is in politics to self-identify - these are the people who flip easily, from right to left, pro-Muslim to anti-Muslim, etc. - versus who, whether on the right or left, is moved by genuine interest and empathy.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Empathy, Interest

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think I know a lot of fake two-faced Ivy League liberals, and I am constantly testing them to see if their liberalism is a conversational liberalism, one that depends solely on what will fly at a party. And I can tell when stuff like this happens, I swear to God, they are tomorrow's conservatives.

  Karan Mahajan

  Party, Thinking, League

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• America going into this huge, costly, never-ending war created huge debt, which became a huge problem in Congress and led to it stalling many times, putting a halt to different kinds of social progress.

  Karan Mahajan

  War, Progress, Different

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Se considera que Occidente, en forma de capitalismo estadounidense, ha ganado, pero la gente empieza a ofrecer alternativas de nuevo, a veces de forma retrógrada, como el islamismo radical.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Islam, Sometimes

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.

  Karan Mahajan

  Fashion, Hurt, World

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well." So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.

  Karan Mahajan

  Fall, Writing, People

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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