Phrase by 'Arundhati Roy'
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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.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistAngry , Lose , Emotional , Robots
For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistMe , People , Family , God
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistLove , Think , Political , Down
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistLove , You , People , Tree
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistNothing , Believe , Dream , Romantic , Village
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistTime , Feel , I Am , Political
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistToday , Dream , Injustice , Caste
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistDay , World , Way , I Can
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistYou , Yourself , Work , Beginning
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
Author: Arundhati Roy - Indian NovelistYou , People , History , America
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