S. Hareesh > Quotes

“But novels are free countries, and there is very little a writer can do about what the characters get up to.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“Those whose minds are empty jabber on in order to cover up the emptiness, whereas those who are caught up in the agony of their own thoughts speak only to themselves.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“Children’s stories usually ended with a moral, but that was only to deceive parents into thinking that stories were edifying.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“One must be wary of the silent types because their minds roil like an ocean. Hollow things make the most sound – a coconut shell, drums, a conch.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“There is no other single marker of a virulent kind of Kerala Malayali masculinity, one that is steeped in caste privilege, than a ‘meesha’ – a moustache.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“Fathers were procreators with no real value. It has been so throughout human history, and so it will be for the rest of history. There is only a short interval when men are valued. There are far more cows in this world than bulls. In thousands of farms and houses, countless cows give birth and produce milk, while bulls are in captivity, producing sperm without even seeing their mates. The male of the species is fast becoming redundant.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“There was no secret that women did not know. They just pretended not to know things.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“I had to tell someone about this — it was the only way I could be sure that I had experienced this. What empty creatures we are! Our experiences and thoughts gain relevance only if endorsed by others; our lives lived only in the thoughts and memories of a handful of people who would also be dead and gone in a short period of time.”
― S. Hareesh, മീശ | Meesha

“What was the point of instigating the poor to grow moustaches? It was more difficult to overcome a single, determined person. A crowd, on the other hand, is easily defeated.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache

“man with facial hair was untamed, aboriginal, allowed to eat raw meat, and chase and subdue his mate. But a man who had surrendered his hair was required to exercise self-control, to chew his food with his mouth closed, to mate only with those he could persuade to consent, to pull up the unruly hairs of the land and cultivate the soil.”
― S. Hareesh, Moustache