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- Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
- In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as…
- I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world...…
- All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had…
- Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
- He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put…
- It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we…
- … he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
- When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective
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