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Arundhati Roy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 24
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.
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The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.
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Humans are animals of habit.
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The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.
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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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The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against corruption and for transparency. They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.
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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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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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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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His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.
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In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns - orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.
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But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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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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The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
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