"When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?"

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Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

Kiran Desai

#Father Quotes #Crow Quotes #Rooftops Quotes

“What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.”
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group - credit card fraud, thefts - these types of things have been used to support them.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair”
“The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”
“The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.”
“One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.”
“Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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