Aravind Adiga Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Let animals live like animals let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

But I complain about the police the way the rich complain not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning re-election to their golden thrones in heaven year after year.

I am not an original thinker&mdashbut I am an original listener.)

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. Thats the best kind there is, trust me.

I was never born and I will never die I do not hurt and cannot be hurt I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.

you were looking for the key for years/But the door was always open

La storia della vita di un povero è scritta sul suo corpo, con una matita ben temperata.

I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans.- Balram Halwai

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called a murderer by the police!

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

They remain slaves because they can't see what is beautiful in this world.

I was never born and I will never die; I do not hurt and cannot be hurt; I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.

I am not an original thinker—but I am an original listener.

The more I stole from him, the more I realized how much he had stolen from me.

When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

Turning to his right, Danny saw a great fig tree sparkle in many places inside its dark canopy of leaves, like a thing that knew its own heart.

sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.

Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.

You were looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.

Don't waste your money on those American books. They're so yesterday. "I am tomorrow.”

But without a family, a man is nothing.

Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao, that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with a conscience?

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.

The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

The coop is guarded from the inside.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.