# Quote — Amit Chaudhuri, Friend of My Youth

> It's a well-known fact that no novel is taken seriously in India until a good deal of research has gone into it. This stay in the Taj will be my research. Going down the stairs will be research. So will looking out at the sea.

- Author: [Amit Chaudhuri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri.md)
- Book: [Friend of My Youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth.md)
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> An hour's a symbolic duration.

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> The eye covers distances in a second. It lusts for freedom. Looking out, I often wanted to be free - not of home, but of the city. The eye (if it's gazing upon something it's unhappy with, as I was) might see nothing. Looking up is different. I have the freedom I then wanted.

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> I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

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