"A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen."

Source : FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

Aravind Adiga

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“Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.”
“fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”
“I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone I love being able to shock people with. I could do something you would not expect me to do. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.”
“I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.”
“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”
“Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”
“I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.”

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