Last Man in Tower Quotes

“Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short earthly flight — which it completed almost instantaneously — before Yogesh Murthy's soul was released for its much longer flight over the oceans of the other world.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower