“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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“(It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.) Lately”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Obelisk Gate
“Biologists Robert Sapolsky and Lisa Share studied a group of Kenyan baboons who fed off the garbage from a nearby tourist lodge. The clan was dominated by high-status males, and females and lesser males would often go hungry. Then at one point, the clan ate infected meat from the garbage dump, which led to the deaths of most of the dominant males. Afterward, the “personality” of the troop completely changed: individuals were less aggressive, more likely to groom one another, and more egalitarian. This behavior persisted as long as the study continued, for over a decade.”
― Sean Carroll, quote from The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Such was the discipline of Elizabeth’s court that any man who struck another within it had his right hand chopped off by the executioner in a most horrible manner.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase)
“Tell me, Channon," he said suddenly, "do you like teaching?"
"Some days. But it's the research I like best. I love digging through old manuscripst and trying to piece together the past."
He gave a short, half laugh. "No offense, but that sound incredibly boring."
"I imagine dragon slaying is much more action-oriented."
"Yes, it is. Every moment is completely unpredictable.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Dragonswan
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