R.K. Narayan Quotes
- Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
- This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down...
- We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves…
- This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on…
- You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
- A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
- life is about making right things and going on..
- The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that…
- We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
- No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
- If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance…
- Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was…