"It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes……" — Katherine Boo
"It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught."
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Katherine Boo
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17 Quotes by Katherine Boo
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as…
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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with…
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More Accidents Quotes
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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