Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist and political activist. She is counted among the most influential literary figures in the modern world for her path breaking novel, ‘The God of Small Things’, for which she won the Man Booker Prize. Roy is an architect by education and studied at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India but her true calling lay in creative pursuits. She dabbled in independent films for a bit but eventually took to writing. She wrote ‘The God of Small Things’ in 1997 and it is the only novel that she has ever written. However, it went on to become a bestseller and sold a record number of copies. She has also been a prolific writer of non-fiction books that have done reasonably well and is a regular contributor of essays for several publications worldwide. Roy has taken up several political causes in her life, starting from the Naxal uprising in India to Kashmiri separatism, that have made her the centre of controversies and she is often seen expressing her thoughts on various social platforms. She is a highly gifted orator and debater, as a result of which, she is quite vocal about expressing herself on various social issues. Here is a collection of Arundhati Roy sayings and quotes that would surely interest you.
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
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When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.
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D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.
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 cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?
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.
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.
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He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
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 would be later. Lay Ter.
His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
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To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
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Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
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The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.
Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.
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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
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[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.
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They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.
They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat.
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Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?
Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.
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It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.
Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner.
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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 lurk unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Bog je zamenjen Marksom, Satana buržoazijom, raj besklasnim društvom, a crkva partijom, dok su vrsta i cilj putovanja ostali slični. Trka s preponama, na čijem cilju čeka nagrada.
Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.
 Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared. )
 a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss. )
