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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one...
MORARJI DESAI

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All g...
MORARJI DESAI

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from ...
MORARJI DESAI

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to h...
MORARJI DESAI

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
MORARJI DESAI

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
MORARJI DESAI

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself...
MORARJI DESAI

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
MORARJI DESAI

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter ...
MORARJI DESAI

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions s...
MORARJI DESAI

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of k...
MORARJI DESAI

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because tho...
MORARJI DESAI

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
MORARJI DESAI

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
MORARJI DESAI

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We s...
MORARJI DESAI

It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must fol...
MORARJI DESAI

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from ...
MORARJI DESAI

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital ...
MORARJI DESAI

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
KIRAN DESAI

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
ANITA DESAI

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
KIRAN DESAI

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by l...
ANITA DESAI

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI

But so fluid a thing was love.It wasn't firm,he was learning, it wasn't a scripture;it was a wobblin...
KIRAN DESAI

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I ac...
ANITA DESAI

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and...
ANITA DESAI

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in t...
ANITA DESAI

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
ANITA DESAI

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too r...
ANITA DESAI

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how mo...
ANITA DESAI

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
ANITA DESAI

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
ANITA DESAI

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho...
ANITA DESAI

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the cast...
ANITA DESAI

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of Indi...
KIRAN DESAI Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
YOGI DESAI 90% of the magic props are of no use...... and you can't do magic with just 10% of props!!
MANGESH DESAI Assumption from Perception creates Deception
MANGESH DESAI A Lover is a focused pervert.
MANGESH DESAI I was trying to be magician and ended up......... well, trying to be a magician
MANGESH DESAI I am sad that once I wasn't alive, I am happy that one day ill die.... If you think that should make...
MANGESH DESAI How do i do this trick? Well even if I knew i wouldn't tell you.
MANGESH DESAI Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
YOGI DESAI

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.
ANITA DESAI When I was born, the doctor was looking for me.
MANGESH DESAI

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanw...
KIRAN DESAI Avian influenza vaccine will be a big source for the disease to spread in India. When the best possi...
ANURADHA DESAI It is not bird flu. We have the best labs. Not one case of bird flu has been detected.
ANURADHA DESAI The government is basically telling us not to make much noise about the issue.
ANURADHA DESAI It is some mistake. I am surprised and shocked at how the government has declared that it is bird fl...
ANURADHA DESAI He was part of such a close-knit community. Hundreds of drivers had visited his home.
BHAIRAVI DESAI There need to be other solutions from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. They do not need to gut the...
BHAIRAVI DESAI Racism, sexism, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, unemployment — homelessness encompasses pr...
JENA DESAI Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working peo...
BHAIRAVI DESAI We are all slaves of our comfort zones.
MANGESH DESAI Always remember that there will be a source of light at the end of every dark tunnel. You just need ...
MEHUL DESAI There is no such thing as “Bad Luck”; it’s just a ghost in your mind.
MEHUL DESAI Winner never quits & quitter never wins. Not applicable to smokers and dopers
MEHUL DESAI The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. Applicable to those, who are ready to learn at an...
MEHUL DESAI Its your life. Love it & Live it.
MEHUL DESAI

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI Everyone is loony in some or other way. Rest who are not; belong to mental asylum.
MEHUL DESAI

Sadness was so claustrophobic.
KIRAN DESAI

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

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely res...
KIRAN DESAI

The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had m...
KIRAN DESAI

The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?
KIRAN DESAI

That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared thro...
KIRAN DESAI

All of the third-world flights docked here, families waiting days for their connections, squatting o...
KIRAN DESAI

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expand...
KIRAN DESAI

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...
KIRAN DESAI

All day, the colours had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flan...
KIRAN DESAI

Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...
KIRAN DESAI

Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.
KIRAN DESAI

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their h...
KIRAN DESAI

He knew what his father thought: that immigration, so often presented as a heroic act, could just as...
KIRAN DESAI

He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the l...
KIRAN DESAI

What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c...
KIRAN DESAI

He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself cou...
KIRAN DESAI

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.
KIRAN DESAI

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. Bu...
KIRAN DESAI

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was c...
KIRAN DESAI

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would ...
KIRAN DESAI

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wep...
KIRAN DESAI

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? H...
KIRAN DESAI

The fact was that one was left empty-handed. There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things;...
KIRAN DESAI

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory e...
KIRAN DESAI

A journey once begun, has no end
KIRAN DESAI

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flank...
KIRAN DESAI

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

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
KIRAN DESAI When times are busy, fees tend to trend up in Asia.
KALPANA DESAI You see hedge funds more willing to do private equity-type deals. You've suddenly got a whole new po...
KALPANA DESAI I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI Further not getting threshold revenue (Cost of servicing + margins) from their home subscribers may ...
KOBITA DESAI Normally when such (foreign investment) agreements are spelt out, there are some fundamental control...
KOBITA DESAI The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The...
KOBITA DESAI The increase in service tax means you pay more now. It adds up to a lot for entry-level users. Any e...
KOBITA DESAI There will be an influx of funds as global investment communities and carriers look toward increasin...
KOBITA DESAI Affordable services, increased penetration, and a willing Indian government would ensure and drive t...
KOBITA DESAI Having these two companies on your board has benefits but it is a challenge to work with multiple pa...
KOBITA DESAI Suitcase is about serving our clientele in a nonjudgmental way. We're not trying to change people's ...
JENA DESAI Racism, sexism, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, unemployment homelessness encompasses pre...
JENA DESAI We run the show. People are amazed that we can do it all.
JENA DESAI A vehicle can be used for 10 years, but technology changes every two years or less.
RAJ DESAI

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
KIRAN DESAI

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one...
MORAJI R. DESAI

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
MORAJI R. DESAI

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to hel...
MORAJI R. DESAI Then, as you get to more advanced stages, you often can't even have a conversation with the patient....
DR. ABHILASH DESAI With a cancer patient, the person knows and is aware of a lot of the things going on. But in dementi...
DR. ABHILASH DESAI

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

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