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title: "2 Bananas Quotes By Kiran Desai"
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> [Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/saeed-quickly-found-employment-at-a-banana-republic-where-he-would/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4db/kiran-desai-11507_bananas_saeed-quickly-found-employment-at-a-bana_2019200.jpg)

> [No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/no-fruit-dies-so-vile-and-offensive-a-death-as-the-banana/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/kiran-desai-11507_banana_no-fruit-dies-so-vile-and-offensive-a-de_2474379.jpg)

## Other authors on Bananas

## More by Kiran Desai

> [“How could anything be the same? The red of blood lay over the market road in slick pools mingled with a yellow spread of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/how-could-anything-be-the-same-the-red-of-blood-lay-over-the-market/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/when-i-was-growing-up-the-publishing-world-seemed-so-far-away-when-my/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/year-by-year-his-life-wasn-t-amounting-to-anything-at-all-and-yet/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/why-couldn-t-she-be-part-of-that-family-rent-a-room-in-someone-else-s/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/in-india-if-you-are-from-the-elite-dogs-are-extremely-important-the/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/i-don-t-think-you-can-write-according-to-a-set-of-rules-and-laws/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/a-man-wasn-t-equal-to-an-animal-not-one-particle-of-him-human-life/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [“But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/but-the-child-shouldn-t-be-blamed-for-the-father-s-crime-she-tried-to/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [“Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust winnowed to softness at his feet, ad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/biju-stepped-out-of-the-airport-into-the-calcutta-night-warm/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/writing-for-me-means-humility-it-s-a-process-that-involves-fear-and/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [“That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared through the moving static of a small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/that-very-afternoon-the-police-arrived-at-cho-oyu-in-a-line-of-toad/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/the-publishing-world-is-very-timid-readers-are-much-braver/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [“The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had made a long hard journey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/the-judge-got-down-on-his-knees-and-he-prayed-to-god-he-jemubhai/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/new-york-is-a-lovely-city-it-is-an-easy-city-to-go-back-to-and-an/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

> [She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-desai/she-d-have-to-propel-herself-into-the-future-by-whatever-means/)

[Kiran Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-desai/)

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