“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth.
The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven
”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“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.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“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”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“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.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“people talk with a sense of wonderment about the incredible bravery of us Rajputs. This is missing the obvious. Whether it’s Father, my brothers, my ancestors, I or my countrymen, we are, it goes without saying, unsurpassedly fearless and valiant.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another’s point of view.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“We watched the field exercises first and then sat in on a class by. Shafi Khan on classic attack formations. It was a lucid talk with ample diagrams and case-studies.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“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”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Grammar, he felt, was a sign of competence, not of excellence.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“The only miracles in life are wrought by time.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“I am a very possessive woman. But I knew that if I were to keep you, I would have to let go of you. I”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“She was more serene and self-possessed in her nakedness than the supernaturally calm larger-than-life image of Lord Mahavir in her grandfather Adinathji’s courtyard. I closed my eyes. She stood inside them. In”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“We rework our own memories and reinvent ourselves to suit our tastes and predilections every day.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“You would be entirely justified if you spent your entire life railing against your misfortune. But there is another option. Rise above your fate. Internalize your calamity and give it a heroic dimension as Bhishma did. It was a thoughtful disquisition and its central insight applied to all of us since there is no man born who is not handicapped in one way or another. So it is up to us to make the best of a botched job. After”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“my joyous companion of the mornings. Who knows what pain we cause our dearest ones?”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“It’s not enough to be honest and loyal, frankly it doesn’t matter if you are not, so long as you are perceived to be so.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“Nobody sang steamy overwrought songs to Rama, Vishnu or Shiva. What was the source of the irresistible attraction of the peacock-feathered god? How was he able to get away with the very things that would land any other man in jail for life? Did the women, in their heart of hearts, want to walk the streets with see-through, wet blouses and wait for some dashing young man with a peacock feather in his phenta to tug at their odhanis? Whatever”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
Kiran Nagarkar
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date January 1, 1942
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“Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
“As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.”
― Philip Larkin, quote from Collected Poems
“Often, maybe even usually, Bernie ended up being the smartest human in the room. Tonight was different.”
― Spencer Quinn, quote from Dog on It
“Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active thrust: like dust in a watch, Mendel thought to himself. He's got dust in him, even though he is young. It's stupid to say the young are strong. You understand many things better at thirty than at twenty and you can also bear them better.”
― Primo Levi, quote from If Not Now, When?
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