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Cuckold

Kiran Nagarkar

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven”

“Where do songs go when you cease to hear them? Where does the turbulence of the air disappear after thousands of birds flap their wings homeward at eventide? Where are the cries of the Rajput women who spatter their red palm prints on the wall and leap into the flames of johar? Where is my childhood, my catapult, my broken slate, my first parrot, my youth and first sin and all those that followed, where is my old age and the first time I saw the woman from Merta? Ask Gambhiree. She knows it all.”

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

“run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.”

“The only way a man could defy time was to leave behind buildings that would not die.”

“The only battles that he and his kin fought, the only blood they spilt was on the chessboard. Massacres and carnage were not to his taste. He preferred the long, slow, tortuous death. I”

“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does not allow any instant remedies. Responsibility for one’s own acts is its only metaphysics. So”

“Grammar, he felt, was a sign of competence, not of excellence.”

“Being in the right has got nothing to do with courage or exceptional bravery. The forces of evil will fight just as enthusiastically or fiercely as the armies of righteousness.”

“As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.”

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life-philosophy, childhood-memory, buildings, time, defying-time, causes, being-in-the-right, architecture, life, just-desserts, fighting, randomness-of-life, river

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