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Thing Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
- The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
- You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know,…
- 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…
- People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say,…
- With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black…
- Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
- 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.…
- 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…
- The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the…
- It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very…
- It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating…
- The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after…
- He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her.…
- There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
- Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
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- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong