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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Sir Arthur has spent three decades of his life on these haunted shores and is clearly a Sri Lankan. Austria convinced the world that Hitler was German and Mozart was theirs. Surely, after centuries of armed plunder, courtesy of the sea pirates from London, Amsterdam and Lisbon, may we Lankans at least help ourselves to one sci-fi visionary?”

51. “Sir Arthur has spent three decades of his life on these haunted shores and is clearly a Sri Lankan. Austria convinced the world that Hitler was German and Mozart was theirs. Surely, after centuries of armed plunder, courtesy of the sea pirates from London, Amsterdam and Lisbon, may we Lankans at least help ourselves to one sci-fi visionary?”

— Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “For atheists there are only moral choices.”

52. “For atheists there are only moral choices.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “The nuns at Bridgets are very liberal. You know you can kiss a nun once.’ He pauses and wags his finger. ‘But don’t get into the habit.”

53. “The nuns at Bridgets are very liberal. You know you can kiss a nun once.’ He pauses and wags his finger. ‘But don’t get into the habit.”

— Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Only karma grants what is yours.”

54. “Only karma grants what is yours.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Nothings is for nothing, putha.”

55. “Nothings is for nothing, putha.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Do animals get an afterlife? Or is their punishment to be reborn as human?”

56. “Do animals get an afterlife? Or is their punishment to be reborn as human?”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That’s all the insight you’ll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep.”

57. “You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That’s all the insight you’ll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Even the afterlife is designed to keep the masses stupid,’ says the boy. ‘They make you forget your life and push you towards some light. All bourgeois tools of the oppressor. They tell you that injustice is part of some grand plan. And that’s what keeps you from rising against it.”

58. “Even the afterlife is designed to keep the masses stupid,’ says the boy. ‘They make you forget your life and push you towards some light. All bourgeois tools of the oppressor. They tell you that injustice is part of some grand plan. And that’s what keeps you from rising against it.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “I’ve watched your kind. Both as beast and as ghost. I can’t understand why humans destroy when they can create. Such a waste.”

59. “I’ve watched your kind. Both as beast and as ghost. I can’t understand why humans destroy when they can create. Such a waste.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “There are good reasons humans can’t converse with animals, except after death. Because animals wouldn’t stop complaining. And that would make them harder to slaughter.”

60. “There are good reasons humans can’t converse with animals, except after death. Because animals wouldn’t stop complaining. And that would make them harder to slaughter.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “It’s difficult to know God’s face if you don’t even know your own.”

61. “It’s difficult to know God’s face if you don’t even know your own.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “1983 was an atrocity. eight thousand homes, five thousand shops, a hundred and fifty thousand homeless, no official body count. The Sri Lankan government has neither acknowledged nor apologised for it.”

62. “1983 was an atrocity. eight thousand homes, five thousand shops, a hundred and fifty thousand homeless, no official body count. The Sri Lankan government has neither acknowledged nor apologised for it.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “She also spies a teddybear that your dada brought back from Colombo along with a sexually transmitted disease, which was his parting gift to your Amma. The disease was called despair.”

63. “She also spies a teddybear that your dada brought back from Colombo along with a sexually transmitted disease, which was his parting gift to your Amma. The disease was called despair.”

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Shehan Karunatilaka Quote: “Even suicide requires perseverance.”

64. “Even suicide requires perseverance.”

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