Karan Mahajan Quotes

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing
Karan Mahajan
During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families.
Karan Mahajan
Silence is the small man’s only defense.
Karan Mahajan
Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
Karan Mahajan
No action is safe from meaning.
Karan Mahajan
Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.
Karan Mahajan
Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.
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To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
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The roots of shame run deep.
Karan Mahajan
What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?
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Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns.
Karan Mahajan
And you know what happens when a bomb goes off? The truth about people comes out. Men leave their children and run away. Shopkeepers push aside wives and try to save their cash. People come and loot the shops. A blast reveals the truth about places. Don't forget what you're doing is noble.
Karan Mahajan