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> [“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/every-new-yorker-thinks-they-re-automatically-better-than-everyone/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

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## Other authors on Beggars

## More by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

> [“Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/discrimination-is-not-just-racial-now-it-s-also-about-the-kind-of/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/here-was-a-particular-kind-of-energy-in-those-early-days-something-i/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/watching-a-parent-die-is-a-terrible-task-my-father-faced-with/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Then I realized that the history of the world is largely a history of sustainable systems. Every so often a system comes along that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/then-i-realized-that-the-history-of-the-world-is-largely-a-history-of/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“This is how we progress as humans. We went from horseless carriages to self-driving, self-organizing transport in a hundred and fifty years. We went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/this-is-how-we-progress-as-humans-we-went-from-horseless-carriages-to/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/what-strange-and-thoughtless-creatures-we-were-back-in-those-days-we/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, I’m sorry, that’s the way the world works. Homer said the Greeks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/beautiful-women-have-a-following-all-their-own-if-that-sounds/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“This is the Number. It is in the things we do, the people we meet, the ID cards that we carry. It's part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/this-is-the-number-it-is-in-the-things-we-do-the-people-we-meet-the/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/sometimes-respect-is-as-hard-a-currency-as-money-is/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Bunch of people go out to the Valley, create something new. Us out here in the world go hmm, that's interesting, and start using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/bunch-of-people-go-out-to-the-valley-create-something-new-us-out-here/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/every-new-yorker-thinks-they-re-automatically-better-than-everyone/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/this-book-is-a-story-and-like-all-stories-it-should-be-taken-with-a/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and perhaps too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/sri-lanka-is-a-beautiful-little-island-nation-parked-perilously-close/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“We’re going to tell these people that they dropped because Facebook dropped us. We're going to say the Number needs the data and it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/we-re-going-to-tell-these-people-that-they-dropped-because-facebook/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

> [“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/i-have-never-seen-anyone-drink-like-he-did-to-say-he-drank-with-a/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

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