Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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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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The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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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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Things can change in a day.
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If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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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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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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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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How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It’s over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.
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Excitement always leads to tears.
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Use your art to fight.
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Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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