Shame Quotes
"Time cannot be homogenized as easily as milk, and in those parts, until quite recently, the thirteen-hundreds were still in full swing."
"To him it would have seemed like a completely shameless going-on, an abhorrence, the proof of his failure to impose his will on us."
"God knows what got his goat, but he is going in an incorrect way."
"During his last delirium he embarked on a ceaseless and largely incomprehensible monologue amidst whose turbid peregrinations the household servants could make out long passages of obscenity."
"This interminable captivity forged between the three sisters a bond of intimacy that would never completely be broken."
"You will do anything that I ask you to do, but I will ask you to do nothing that you will be unwilling to do."
"In spite of biological improbability, I am prepared to swear that so wholeheartedly did they wish to share the motherhood of their sibling."
"Unaware, in that hideously indeterminate frontier universe, of the curvature of space and time, thanks to which he who runs longest and hardest inevitably ends up, gaspingpanting, at the starting line, he dreamed of exits."
"Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture."
"The continual passage of items from living quarters via dumbwaiter to pawnshop brought concealed matter to light at regular intervals."
"Omar Khayyam unbuckled his sandals and placed his bare feet on the ice, feeling the healing solace of its coldness."
"Farah Rodrigues in her pride spoke to no one in Q."
"The greatness of a picture house can be deduced from the noisiness of its customers."
"We are not absolute monarchs, child, don’t forget it."
"And on his train, Omar Khayyam Shakil was borne away into the future."
"The greatness of a man and his ethical nature are determined by his treatment of women."
"Every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales."
"The recounting of histories is for us a rite of blood."
"We have come unstuck from more than land. We have floated upwards from history, from memory, from Time."
"If a peacock dances in the jungle, who will see its tail?"
"Violence is the language of these savages; but the law obliges us to speak in the discredited womanly tongue of minimum-force."
"To unlock a society, look at its untranslatable words."
"Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence."
"Meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type."
"History loves only those who dominate her: it is a relationship of mutual enslavement."
"Scissors cutting air mean trouble in the family."
"A saint is a person who suffers in our stead."
"Just imagine having a fish up your fundament, an eel that spits at your insides."
"Think of a sikh kabab that leaks hot cooking fat."
"It’s like sitting on a rocket that sends you to the moon."
"Face like a potato! Skin like a tomato! Walks like an elephant! Tiny plantain in his pant."
"Mummy dear, I won’t marry that stupid potato, you just see if I do."
"The boy’s a dope, I’m afraid, no need to take steps against him, I hope. He’ll come home and settle down."
"You should spend some time, maybe seven years or so, not too long, with our village people."
"A woman does not have to be a brainbox. In many opinions brains are a positive disadvantage to a woman in marriage."
"God damn it, Rani, don’t be difficult, for God’s sake. Not for me, what do you think, would I ask? For Haroun. It’s the only way."
"For God’s sake, does that qualify her to be a wife?"
"I tell you, how great to be away from this house."
"I’m pretty impressed by the coup that fellow engineered. I tell you, he’s the man for me!"
"Stop looking so fish-faced, the future has begun."
"I saw the white girls in the village swell and pop."
"A man who believes in God must also believe in men."
"The higher you climb, the thicker the blasted mud."
"Death’s cell is ten feet long, seven wide, eight high, twenty point seven four cubic yards of finality."
"The blushes caused by such blows do not easily fade."
"I have been hearing some terrible things about Mr. Harappa’s period in office."
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
"I will not kill her. Because she saved my life. And because, once, I saved hers."
"What else to do? Because I cannot kill her either, don’t you see."
"The Beast has many faces. Some are always sad."
"Don’t ask me what became of him; I can’t be expected to know everything."
"Only the dead can say what the living are thinking."
"Epicureanism is subversive. The people are like Robespierre."
"The inconsistency doesn’t matter; I myself manage to hold large numbers of wholly irreconcilable views simultaneously, without the least difficulty."
"Stories end, worlds end; and then it’s judgment day."