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When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to. — Kiran Desai

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again. — Kiran Desai

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life. — Kiran Desai

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion. — Kiran Desai

It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet. — Kiran Desai

With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home! — Rupali Desai

Not only the footwear, wear also the courtesy, respect, and gratitude in your heart while stepping out of home. — Rupali Desai

Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. — Amrit Desai

Sadness was so claustrophobic. — Kiran Desai

The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy? — Kiran Desai

Not money, it's the service that makes you rich. — Rupali Desai

Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude — Rupali Desai

Our inner monologues have tremendous power over us. They can affect not only our mood, not only our physical bodies, — Panache Desai

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Morarji Desai

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. — Anita Desai

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. — Morarji Desai

Lit more than enlightened. — Tanuja Desai Hidier

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans. — Kiran Desai

Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain. — Kiran Desai

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view. — Morarji Desai

The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it. — Panache Desai

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. — Morarji Desai

The Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out. — Kiran Desai

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal. — Morarji Desai

Life's experiences, regardless of how they show up, are the means through which we get to love one another — Panache Desai

No one, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come. — Rudrajeet Desai

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. — Morarji Desai

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you. — Kiran Desai

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being. — Narayan Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still. — Anita Desai

Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July. — Anita Desai

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. — Morarji Desai

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't. — Kiran Desai

You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing. — Tanuja Desai Hidier

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere. — Kiran Desai

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly. — Kiran Desai

A journey once begun, has no end — Kiran Desai

Say goodbye to this energy of fear that kept you safe but small. — Panache Desai

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver. — Kiran Desai

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending. — Anita Desai

What was a country but the idea of it? — Kiran Desai

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it. — Kiran Desai

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. — Anita Desai

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them? — Kiran Desai

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk — Kiran Desai

You being you is the blessing. You being you is the miracle. You being you is enough. You being you is your soul signature. — Panache Desai

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. — Kiran Desai

Politics and friendships are like oil and water, you need a really good blender to make them work. — Kush Desai

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed. — Morarji Desai

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism. — Morarji Desai

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood? — Anita Desai

it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed. — Kiran Desai

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana ... — Kiran Desai

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story. — Kiran Desai

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed. — Kiran Desai

Manmohan Desai's cinema wasn't about logic. It was about exuberance, vitality and above all, entertainment. — Anupama Chopra

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. — Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. — Anita Desai

Fame must be received with gratitude and handled with humility. — Rupali Desai

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. — Morarji Desai

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss. — Kiran Desai