Latest Khushwant Singh Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

  Khushwant Singh

  Believe, Giving, Earth

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• [Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sex, Fun, Real

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sex, Scotch, Drunk

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

  Khushwant Singh

  Years, Deadline, Journalist

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

  Khushwant Singh

  Book, Writing, Rubbish

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

  Khushwant Singh

  Writing, Serious Person, Claims

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

  Khushwant Singh

  Lonely, Book

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.

  Khushwant Singh

  Rude, Trying, Connections

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, Dropping, Plans

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

  Khushwant Singh

  Gossip, Needs, Close Friends

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

  Khushwant Singh

  Mind, Pakistan, Firsts

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, The End Of The Day, Diplomats

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

  Khushwant Singh

  Jobs, Law, Unhappy

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me the material for my early short stories.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sports, Book, Reading

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.

  Khushwant Singh

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

  Khushwant Singh

  Writing, Language, Used

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

  Khushwant Singh

  Thinking, Issues, Doctors

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

  Khushwant Singh

  Party, Movement, Congress

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

  Khushwant Singh

  Communist, Leftists

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I was under police security for 15 years because I was on their hit-list. I opposed Khalistan because I thought it would be suicide for the Sikh community to demand a separate state, and they heard me because they knew I was one of them. I think I turned round at least the intelligent Sikh's point of view and that gave me enormous satisfaction.

  Khushwant Singh

  Suicide, Thinking, Intelligent

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

  Khushwant Singh

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

• I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

  Khushwant Singh

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com