Quotes by Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga

…the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Lying

Men

Phones

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

Growing

Men

Past

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It’s too dangerous.

Dangerous

No Friends

White

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Effectiveness

India

Political

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

Done

Men

World

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

Faithful Servants

Men

Winning

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop – men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still “boys.” But that is your fate if you do your job well – with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

Fate

Honesty

Jobs

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.

Cities

Crazy

Years

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Cities

Luxury

Space

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

New York

Psychics

Years

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Body

Broken

Cash

Christian

Cities

Class

Community

Country

Crazy

Dad

Dangerous

Done

Doors

Dream

Drinking

Effectiveness

Entrepreneur

Faithful Servants

Fate

Father

Four

Fun

Genuine Concern

Grandfather

Growing

Growing Up

Heart

Honesty

Inconvenience

India

Jobs

Just One

Keys

Language

Library

Life

Listeners

Living Things

Losing

Luxury

Lying

Members

Men

Money

Mother

My Family

Mystery

New York

No Friends

Office

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Quotes by Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga

…the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

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

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It’s too dangerous.

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

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.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

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