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Things Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- 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,…
- When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.…
- You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to…
- 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…
- Things can change in a day.
- 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…
- Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
- 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…
- Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
- They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it…
- Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love.…
- Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely…
- Some things come with their own punishments.
- There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
- Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different…
- Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle