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Dead Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and…
- A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.…
- Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that…
- Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking…
- The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
- Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon