Jerry Pinto Quotes

#1. In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

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#2. I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.

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#3. I am no I. I am now part of a we.

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#4. Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.

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#5. After you were born, someone turned on a tap. At first it was only a drip, a black drip, and I felt it as sadness. I had felt sad before ... who hasn't ? I knew what it was like. But I didn't know that it would come like that, for no reason. I lived with it for weeks.

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#6. Honestly.I don't understand Zen.It seems if you don't answer properly,or if you are rude,people get enlightened.

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#7. That's what comes of this celibacy business. We confess to men who've never had to worry about a family. Naturally, it's a huge sin to them, this abortion business. What do they know? They probably think it's fun and games. Let them try it.

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#8. Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control

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#9. Because the sky is so high and the crow shat in your left eye. I could tell you a lie but I don't see why. The world is a game and the game is a tie. The tie is around your neck and they'll string you high.

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#10. But it seemed as if all psychiatric medicine was aimed only at the symptoms. Mute the paranoia. Calm the rage. Raise the endorphins. Underneath, the mysteries continued, unchanged. Underneath, somewhere in the chemistry of her brain, there was something that could not be reached.

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#11. She had forgotten, and the world was lying askew around

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#12. There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.

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#13. Marriage is all right. At least the person you're having a go at is an adult. But motherhood ... You're given something totally dependent, totally in love with you and it doesn't seem to come with a manual.

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#14. What is it about the sea? Is it because it's there?

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#15. Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

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#16. Was there a drain?'
'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'.

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#17. Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.

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#18. On the balcony of our small flat in a city of small flats.

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#19. He was a natural Protestant when I met him.", Em would say. "He protested everything.

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#20. I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.

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#21. She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'
Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

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#22. A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

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#23. You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you're walking fast, if the sun's too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people's consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

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#24. Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars.

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