Shehan Karunatilaka Quotes

#1. I have no idea what the song is about, but at least it does not sound like furniture falling down stairs

Shehan Karunatilaka

#2. All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.

Margaret Mitchell

#3. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

Ian McEwan

#4. Throughout my life, even when times were tough, I never stopped buying books. Or, come to think of it, booze. My library is dusty and well stocked. My liver is well worn.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#5. If a liar tells you he is lying, is he telling the truth.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#6. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#7. But marriage is one long sacrifice ...
Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

Edith Wharton

#8. I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here,

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#9. The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Shehan Karunatilaka