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Arundhati Roy Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
— Arundhati Roy, The God Of Small Things
Tagged: Communication, hurt, Love, Dating, Relationships, Falling Out Of Love, Sorry
“As resistance movements have begun to reach out across national borders and pose a real threat, governments have developed their own strategies of how to deal with them. They range from cooptation to repression.”
— Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire(Open Media Series)
“Anti-Americanism is then seized upon and amplified by the U.S. government and its faithful media outlets. You know the routine: 'Why do they hate is? They hate our freedoms,' et cetera.”
— Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire(Open Media Series)
Tagged: manipulation
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Love, Self-Love
“The rift between rich and poor is being driven deeper and the battle to control the world's resources intensifies. Economic colonialism through formal military aggression is staging a comeback.”
— Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire(Open Media Series)
Tagged: Wealth Gap, wealth disparity
“I wanted to write where I’m just drifting around, the way I do in Delhi, in mosques and strange places, as I have all my life. Just delighting in all the crazies and the sweethearts, and the joy in the saddest places, and the unexpectedness of things.”
— Arundhati Roy, ‘Fiction takes its time’: Arundhati Roy on why it took 20 years to write her second novel
Tagged: Writing & Expression
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
Tagged: Living, Life's Purpose, Our Purpose
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Tagged: Peace, Art, Love, Compassion
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