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Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 24
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
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What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.
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Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
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The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.
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I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.
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They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.
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The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
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I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.
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Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists
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In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!
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One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
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With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.
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It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.
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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
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Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
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