Quotes by Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the o — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schoo — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it wa — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous. — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying the fu — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because h — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a reaction of piety which I — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer. You can spend this — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted wa — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nati — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or ent — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, fro — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and s — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him t — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger