Aravind Adiga Quotes

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• It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

  Aravind Adiga

  Money, Cash, Language

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.177, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

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  Past, Men, Growing

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.150, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

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  Life, Keys, Doors

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

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  Beautiful, Lessons To Be Learned, Lesson Learned

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

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  Sweet, Men, Smell

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

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  Country, Brother, Lying

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• Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

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  Want, Living Things

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.419, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

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  Book, Color, Sitting

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

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  Genuine Concern, Roosters, Mystery

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• See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

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  Dream, Weight, Losing

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from May 28, 2012

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• I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!

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  Country, Drinking, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

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  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

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  Men, Stories, Body

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

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  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

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  Sleep, Men, Differences

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

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  Thinker, Originals, Listeners

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

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  Heart, Genuine Concern, Self

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• Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

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  Progress, Inconvenience

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.97, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

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  Trustworthiness, Economy, Servant

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

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  Beautiful, Gun, Boys

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.163, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

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  Important, Trying, India

  "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

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  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

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  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

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  Favour, Circulation

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

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  Men, People, Worry

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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