Manu Joseph Quotes

#1. Operna did not understand this habit of Indian men. If they could letch at her so overtly, they might as well ask her directly who she was. Why did they always turn to someone else and say, 'Wont you introduce us?' It was so pathetic.

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#2. Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.

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#3. He tried to look at her face in the hope that she was not pretty. Beautiful women depressed him. They were like Mercedes, BlackBerry phones and sea-view homes.

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#4. After riding like a moron all over the place, observe the face of an Indian when he crashes. He is stunned.

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#5. My love, I feel terrible without you. It is like being with you.

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#6. Strong people write bad stories.

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#7. Free love,Ayaan knew, is an enchanting place haunted by demented women

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#8. That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers

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#9. Fight, Thoma, put fight.

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#10. You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

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#11. Marriage needed the absurdity of values.

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#12. Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

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#13. If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion.

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#14. Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

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#15. So what is truth, then ?'
'Truth is a successful delusion.

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#16. At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

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#17. What is it about life that even Ousep Chacko believes it is a lottery?

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#18. From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families.

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#19. She was reminded of her mother's prophecy one day before her wedding that - he will go completely mad one day. But he seems so happy she told her mother. Its not only the sad who go mad, my child, its also the happy, her mother said.
- Serious Men

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#20. That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

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#21. How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

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#22. The fate of every love story, he knew very well, is in the rot of togetherness, or in the misery of separation. Lovers often choose the first with the same illusory wisdom that makes people choose to die later than now.

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#23. It's a myth that Sanskrit is the best language for writing computer code. Patriotic Indians have spread this lie for many years - Bill Gates

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#24. The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

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#25. The city is full of terrible actors. That is what historians never say about Madras, it is filled with hams.

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#26. There is a crowd outside the main door, talking softly about the death as if they don't want the dead man to know that he is gone.

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#27. Somehow I feel that a person who thinks he has discovered the absolute truth will not be someone I know.

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#28. The dedication of passwords was the new fellowship of marriage. To each other, couples had become furtive asterisks

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#29. She walked to the door and looked at him with an affection that was at once hopeful and melancholic. Like light was both particle and wave.

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#30. The true nature of sorrow is boredom.

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#31. Happiness as an inescapable fate, not a pursuit.

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#32. A mysterious character of UFOs is that they are sighted only in the First World,' she said, 'and no alien conquest of Earth begins until the mayor of New York holds an emergency press conference. When Mars attacks, it attacks America.

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#33. In the twilight that was now the colour of dust, in the fury of horns that was a national language because honking had telegraphic properties..

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#34. He decayed in a state of gentle happiness.

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#35. Thoma is amazed at the telepathy of women. How miraculous it is for one woman to do something weird and another woman to extract its intended meaning.

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#36. He was wearing a blue tracksuit that had a white tick mark embroidered at the hip, as if he approved of something. It

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#37. And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

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#38. It is in the nature of love to be disproportionate with both rewards and retributions.

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#39. The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men

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#40. But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

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#41. The end of an ox is beef, the end of a lie is grief.
- Serious Men

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#42. No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

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#43. A man cannot be exactly the way he wants to be and also dream of keeping his wife

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#44. Unni had a very serious problem. He had this artistic objection to the heart symbol. He said it doesn't look like a heart, he said it looks more like a read arse.

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#45. Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores.

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#46. The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.

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#47. It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.

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#48. The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city. Every

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#49. The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

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