That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I’ve spent my whole life fighting tradition. There’s no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
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The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
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At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.
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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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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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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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If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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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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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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The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.
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Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
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