Quotes by Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

A journey once begun, has no end

Ends

Journey

A man wasn’t equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. “We should be dying.” the judge almost wept.

Animal

Beautiful

Men

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Color

Moving

Ocean

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn’t believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn’t leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Believe

Pride

Self

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

Felt

Fulfillment

Loss

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

Contentment

Desire

Loss

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

Doe

Modern India

Thinking

I don’t think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Law

Thinking

Writing

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

Comfortable

Feels

Uncomfortable

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

American Writer

Tennessee

Truman

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Bananas

Beautiful

Believe

Black

Book

Change

Cities

Civilization

Coconuts

Color

Comfortable

Contentment

Cooking

Crow

Desire

Diaspora

Doe

Dog

Emotion

Employment

Ends

Extremes

Father

Fear

Feels

Felt

Forever

Fruit

Fulfillment

Growing Up

Heart

Home

Honesty

Immigration

Important

India

Issues

Jobs

Journey

Law

Left Behind

Light

Loss

Lovely

Lucky

Mean

Men

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Quotes by Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

A journey once begun, has no end

A man wasn’t equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. “We should be dying.” the judge almost wept.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn’t believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn’t leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I don’t think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

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