Arundhati Roy Quotes - Page 8

• 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 power.

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  Relationship, Thinking, World

  David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.46, South End Press

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• If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity, caste or religion. But the whole effort now is to confect a political constituency - an ethnic or a religious constituency that can coalesce into a political majority in order to deal with this model of representative democracy. That process has been a hundred years in the making in this part of the world.

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  Religious, Political, Effort

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

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  Order, Community, India

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

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  Law, Made, Should

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.33, Penguin Books India

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• Después de todo, es muy fácil destrozar una historia. Romper una cadena de pensamientos. Arruinar un fragmento de un sueño que se transporta cuidadosamente como una pieza de porcelana. Dejarlo ser, viajar con él, como hizo Velutha, es mucho más difícil.

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  Life, Dream, Stories

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Apr 26, 2017

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• 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 complicated relationship with that word.

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  Running, Complicated Relationship, Boring

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• Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.

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  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Habla en voz suficientemente alta de derechos humanos y da la impresión de que la democracia funciona, de que la justicia funciona. Hubo un tiempo en que Estados Unidos hizo la guerra para derrocar democracias, porque entonces la democracia era una amenaza para el libre mercado. Los países nacionalizaban sus recursos, protegían sus mercados.... Así que entonces, las democracias reales estaban siendo derrocadas. Fueron derrocadas en Irán, fueron derrocadas en toda América Latina, Chile.

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  Country, Real, War

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

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  Country, India, Able

  Fuente: www.soldefter.com

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• 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 ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

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  Mother, Memories, Eye

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• Todo es una obra de teatro. Hiroshima y Nagasaki ocurren, hay cientos de miles de muertos, se baja el telón y ahí se acaba todo. Luego ocurre Corea. Pasa Vietnam, pasa todo lo que pasó en América Latina. Y de vez en cuando, este telón se baja y la historia comienza de nuevo. Se fabrican nuevas moralidades y nuevas indignaciones... en una historia desaparecida.

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  Latin, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Korea

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.

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  Lying, Hate, Live Life

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Cuando dice cosas como: "Tenemos que acabar con los talibanes", ¿qué significa eso? Los talibanes no son un número fijo de personas. Los talibanes son una ideología que ha surgido de una historia que, ya sabes, Estados Unidos creó de todos modos.

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  Mean, Numbers, America

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

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  Ciudadanos

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

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  Support, Want, Ifs

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

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  America, Pockets, Giants

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

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  Justice, Alternatives, Terrorism

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.324, Penguin Books India

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• At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

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  Taken, People, Water

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Fiction

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• All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

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  Real, Libro, Pensamiento

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• It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

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  Air, Frightening, Nationalism

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

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  Media, Democracy, Pillars

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

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  Exercise, Needs, Fiction

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

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  Nice, World, Care

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.54, Penguin Books India

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• Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

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  Hands, Insanity, Restaurants

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India

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