Suketu Mehta Quotes

#1. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City

Dinesh D'Souza

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

Suketu Mehta

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

Suketu Mehta

#4. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Emma Donoghue

#5. I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

Alistair MacLean

#6. 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.

Suketu Mehta

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

Suketu Mehta

#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.

Suketu Mehta

#9. She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Mavis Gallant

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

Suketu Mehta

#11. Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Maya Angelou

#12. The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

Victor Hugo

#13. Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Nadia Boulanger

#14. 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.

Suketu Mehta

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

Suketu Mehta

#16. If you like something, you don't care if it's ugly.

Shen Fu

#17. 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.

Suketu Mehta

#18. If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

John Bates Clark

#19. Sometimes I really hate being right.

R.L. LaFevers

#20. looked more like someone had let a rabid raven dance on the sign than it did actual writing.

J.C. Nelson

#21. The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Paulo Coelho

#22. How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again?
You just do it...Because you have no choice.

Linda Howard

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

Suketu Mehta

#24. When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

Johnny Hunt

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

Suketu Mehta

#26. Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Marianne Williamson