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Thinking Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of…
- I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother…
- Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other,…
- 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,…
- Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with…
- All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are…
- I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom,…
- 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…
- Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought…
- I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.
- 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…
- They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that…
- Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.
- It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their…
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