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81 " You are everything to me: a father, leader and guru. What grieves me is that you are about to lose the position which you have attained through so much. "
― R.K. Narayan , The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
82 " My dear brother, you snatched away a beautiful woman, turning a deaf ear ear to her screams and appeals, and have kept her in her prison all these months. "
83 " A whole civilization had come to an abrupt stalemate because its men had no better basis of living than public opinion. "
― R.K. Narayan
84 " What great human forces meet and come to grips with each other between every sunrise and sunset! "
85 " Raju remained silent. He could not open his lips without provoking admiration. This was a dangerous state of affairs. "
― R.K. Narayan , The Guide
86 " Adulthood was just a mask that people wore, the mask made up of a thick jowl and double chin and diamond earrings, or a green sporting shirt, but within it a man kept up the nonsense of his infancy, worse now for being without the innocence and the pure joy. Only the values of commerce gave this state a gloss of importance and urgency. "
87 " if you threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face. "
― R.K. Narayan , Malgudi Days
88 " I realized that deep within I was not different from human beings, and I got into their habit myself and never had a moment’s silence or stillness of mind "
― R.K. Narayan , A Tiger for Malgudi
89 " Of his views on education, he says, ‘My natural aversion to academic education was further strengthened when I came across an essay by Rabindranath Tagore on education. It confirmed my own precocious conclusions on the subject. I liked to be free to read what I please and not be examined at all.’ After "
― R.K. Narayan , The Very Best of R. K. Narayan Timless Malgudi
90 " people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That’s the natural law of life, "
91 " You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. "
92 " A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. "
93 " A film of the novel, called simply Guide, was released in 1965, produced by and starring Dev Anand, directed by Vijay Anand, and with Waheeda Rehman as Rosie "
94 " I really do not mind doing it for everyone, but there are those who neither know nor learn when taught. I feel like kicking them when I come across that type. "
― R.K. Narayan , The English Teacher
95 " When one is seized with a passion to understand one’s self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought. "
96 " Just as the presence of a little loba (meanness) dries up and disfigures a whole human personality, so does the presence of this monster turn into desert a region which was once fertile. "
97 " Nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun "
98 " I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun. "
99 " I felt too hurt. I thought that Othello was kindlier to Desdemona. "
100 " brinjals "