Arundhati Roy Short Quotes

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If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

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Thirty-one.
Not old.
Not young.
But a viable die-able age.

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Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

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The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

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Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

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They broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

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Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

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I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know...

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Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

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But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

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Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

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The truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.

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Men's bums never grow up. Like school satchels, they evoke in an instant memories of childhood.

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There is only one dream worth having... to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.

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People rarely win wars, governments rarely (completely) lose them. People (do completely) get killed.

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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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He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

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The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

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India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

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There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

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Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

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Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).

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When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

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