3 Quotes by R K Narayan

Adulthood was just a mask that people wore, the mask made up of a thick jowl and double chin and diamond earrings, or a green sporting shirt, but within it a man kept up the nonsense of his infancy, worse now for being without the innocence and the pure joy. Only the values of commerce gave this state a gloss of importance and urgency.

What great human forces meet and come to grips with each other between every sunrise and sunset!

A whole civilization had come to an abrupt stalemate because its men had no better basis of living than public opinion.