Suketu Mehta Quotes

#1. It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.

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#2. In the looking, I found the cities within me.

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#3. It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

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#4. It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.

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#5. This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.

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#6. The gang war will never end. Because at it's core , it is not the gangsters against the police or the gangster against another. It is a young man with a Mauser against history personal and political, it is revolution one murder at a time.

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#7. Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.

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#8. Each person's life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

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#9. We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time.

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#10. The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks. 'There are some chapatis,' she replies. 'Can I get something to eat?' he repeats.

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#11. A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.

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