"One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views."

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Source : "Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 8, 2012.

Katherine Boo

#Views Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”
“It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.”
“...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.”
“I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.”
“You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.”

Source : Alec Waugh (2011). “Hot Countries: A Travel Book”, p.15, A&C Black
“Parts win prizes, not actors.”
“Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.”
“Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...”

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