Best Arundhati Roy Sayings
- The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. Acknowledge
- So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… Algebra
- 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… Ability
- Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to… Across
- Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… Begging
- By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like… Already Familiar
- Things can change in a day. Change
- He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In… Dark
- This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. Doctors
- Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. Acceptance
- And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things… Air
- As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… Beauty
- Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend… Alert
- It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried… All
- Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. Close
- Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. Amazing
- Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened.… Came
- As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and… Anyone
- Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when… Accounted
- To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. American
- And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. Another Religion
- Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… Allowed
- There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. Adore
- Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story. Bleached
- But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was… Base
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