I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
These are some quotes by German author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Novelist, who lived between May 7, 1927 and April 3, 2013.
Quotes by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
