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The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

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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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
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Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.
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Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
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If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the massacre of innocent people or, if you like, a clash of civilisations and collateral damage. The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.
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But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
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I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
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He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.
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I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.
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One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.
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