Top 32 Karan Mahajan Quotes
#1. Divide and rule. It wasn't just the British toward the Indians but all parents toward their children.
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#2. He was a person who thrived on company, who desired camaraderie, even in its lowest, most base form; he felt that just seeing other people, no matter the circumstances, even if the people were enemies, filled you with health, gave you a reason to live
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#3. Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing
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#4. Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
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#5. Growing up in Delhi, one gets addicted to pollution.
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#6. Back in the market, people collapsed, then got up, their hands pressed to their wounds, as if they had smashed eggs against their bodies in hypnotic agreement and were unsure about what to do with the runny, bloody yolk. Most
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#7. There was a contradiction within Vikas, an open wound: though he was fascinated by the poor, good at joshing with them, he was afraid, thanks to his bourgeois background, of being perceived as poor. Poverty equaled failure.
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#8. It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in life.
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#9. When things are good, you can see no other way of living; when things are in ruins, there appear a million solutions for how this fate could have been avoided.
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#10. And you know what happens when a bomb goes off? The truth about people comes out. Men leave their children and run away. Shopkeepers push aside wives and try to save their cash. People come and loot the shops. A blast reveals the truth about places. Don't forget what you're doing is noble.
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#11. The months and years of struggle were suddenly canceled by three weeks of exercise and some visualization and focus.
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#13. Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.
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#14. Inside him, in a broth of blood and water, organs bumped softly, organically into one another, like fish in an aquarium.
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#15. He had the slick, proprietary attitude that small men from big cities sometimes bring toward big men from small cities
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#16. Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were forty and forty, and they had suffered the defining tragedy of their lives, and so all other competing tragedies were relegated to mere facts of existence.
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#17. there was a long silence before the screams started, as if, even in pain, people watched each other first to see how to act.
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#19. Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns.
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#20. Village people had no central conception of truth or time or even of other people's memories; they always just played dumb when he told them they'd changed their stories
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#21. Why do the poor refuse to give an accurate picture of their suffering?
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#22. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."
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#23. Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.
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#24. You've read Gandhi-ji? He said that the two worst classes of human beings are doctors and lawyers. Lawyers because they prolong fights and doctors because they cure the symptoms, not the cause. Doctors don't eliminate disease--they perpetuate the existence of doctors.
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#25. But there was no sign of the bomb in the market. Like all other tragedies, it had been covered up; the market had gone into a huddle of concrete and commerce around the blast, paving over the scars like a jungle coming back over a burnt field
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#26. To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat - at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
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#28. they were excited by these bombings in a way that only victims of esoteric, infrequent tragedies are motivated by horrors
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#30. What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?
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#31. Yes, madam," he said, with the exceeding politeness of a man who has just imagined raping you.
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#32. Finally, on a windswept, befogged afternoon, the sort in which all of Delhi is wearing a sweater of atmospheric dirt, he went over with the driver to see the Khuranas.
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