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101 " I shun all activities and you have none. You have freed yourself from all duties which had been forced on you. And so you need not know what time of the day or what time of the week, or numbers, reckoning of before and after, when and how far; in short you don’t have to know the business of counting, which habit has made us human beings miserable in many ways. We have lost the faculty of appreciating the present living moment. We are always looking forward or backward and waiting for one or sighing for the other, and lose the pleasure of awareness of the moment in which we actually exist. "
― R.K. Narayan , A Tiger for Malgudi
102 " Nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun. "
― R.K. Narayan , The Guide
103 " The Indian novel in English has been around for longer than is generally realized, with the first attempts dating to the middle of the nineteenth century. "
104 " You are not likely to understand that I am different from the tiger next door, that I possess a soul within this forbidding exterior. I can think, analyse, judge, remember and do everything that you can do, perhaps with greater subtlety and sense. I lack only the faculty of speech. But "
105 " Never use the words beast or brute. They’re ugly words coined by man in his arrogance. The human being thinks all other creatures are “beasts”. "
106 " anything may spark off a fight if you are inclined to nurture hatred - only the foolish waste their lives in fighting "
107 " If you are ready to hate and want to destroy each other, you may find a hundred reasons "
108 " with a few exceptions here and there, humans have monopolized the attention of fiction writers. Man in his smugness never imagines for a moment that other creatures may also possess ego, values, outlook, and the ability to communicate, though they may be incapable of audible speech. "
109 " When strong men commit crimes, they become heroic deeds? "
― R.K. Narayan , The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic