Vivek Shanbhag Quotes

#1. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.

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#2. it's not we who control money, it's the money that controls us. When there's only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.

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#3. Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

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#4. Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.

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#5. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

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#6. there's a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I

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#7. Words after all are nothing by themselves.

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#8. Cakes as good as the coins they cost.

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#9. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.

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#10. Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.

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