"You can't expect a man in a dung…" — Aravind Adiga
"You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet."
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55 Quotes by Aravind Adiga
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Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being…
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Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
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I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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The coop is guarded from the inside.
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We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,
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India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the…
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In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were…
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In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and…
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At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from…
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Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people…
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More Dung Quotes
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to…
— Wendell Berry
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
— Thomas Jefferson
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch…
— Mark Twain
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What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
— Eric Idle
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If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would…
— Muhammad
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When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world,…
— Laozi
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on…
— Allen Ginsberg
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner…
— Sean O'Casey
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There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be…
— Charles Saatchi
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"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing…
— Alexandra David-Neel
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