Khushwant Singh citáty

Khushwant Singh byl indický spisovatel a novinář.

✵ 2. únor 1915 – 20. březen 2014   •   Další jména خوشنوند سینق
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Khushwant Singh: 40   citátů 0   lajků

Khushwant Singh citáty a výroky

„Byl jsem pojmenováván jako špinavý starý muž, a to mi ani trochu nevadí.“

Originál: (en) I've been called a dirty old man and it doesn't bother me one bit.
Zdroj: [Khushwant Singh, prolific Indian writer, dies at 99, cbc.ca, 2009-05-20, 2014-03-22, http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/khushwant-singh-prolific-indian-writer-dies-at-99-1.2580034]

Khushwant Singh: Citáty anglicky

“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”

Khushwant Singh Train to Pakistan

Varianta: Maorality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion
Zdroj: Train to Pakistan

“I’ve no patience with Hindi films. I find them so unreal. But some I was taken to, like Raj Kapoor’s Satyam Shivam Sundaram.”

Reply to Raj Kapoor who had asked him loudly "I’m a bosom man. What about you?"
I Don't Know One Editor In India Who Is Well-Read

“Why not all three? I have worked hard on each (stated with pride and an endearing smile).”

On being asked if he would like to be remembered as a historian, journalist, or fiction writer?
Khushwant Singh: "Japji Sahib is Based on the Upanishads

“No, love is an ephemeral and illusive concept, it doesn't last; lust lasts.”

On being asked, "Have you ever been in love?"
“We've Had So Many Donkeys as PM"

“It was the Congress leaders who instigated mobs in 1984 and got more than 3000 people killed. I must give due credit to RSS and the BJP for showing courage and protecting helpless Sikhs during those difficult days. No less a person than Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself intervened at a couple of places to help poor taxi drivers.”

Khushwant Singh: 'Congress (I) is the Most Communal Party', Publik Asia, 16-11-1989. , quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743

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