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I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Building Cities Colour Different Different Kind Earth Grew Grown Kind Landscape Lives Love May Much People River Think Tree True Up Way You I Think

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Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

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Topics: Caste Dream Injustice Made Sacred Seem Striving System Though Today Towards Worthy

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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Topics: Another Breathing Day Hear Her Only Possible Quiet She Way World I Can

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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, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Anyway Boil Boundaries Communal Down Each Everybody Fiction Fundamentalism Headlines Hold Liberal Like Literature Love More Most Newspapers Other Political Political Views Riots Say Should Some Than They Say Think Us Views Which Writers I Think

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Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.

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Topics: About Because Business Caste Dividing Divisions Even Every Everyone Form Lowest People Society Solidarity Up Ways

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Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

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Topics: About Beautiful Everything Fiction Just Just One Just One Thing One Thing Should Thing Too

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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

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Topics: Africa Again Anywhere Around Continent India Kicked Longing Over Pakistan People South South Africa Think You

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I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

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Topics: Activists Any Been Done Expected Games Imprisoned Model Morality More Never Person Play Pristine Role Role Model Statistics Want

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I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Awards Books Ease Emotionally Festivals Go Invested Job Life Manufacture Me Opposed Opposite People Professionalism Reviews Shrink Spend Them Think Universe Way Writer Writing You Your I Think

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For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Anyone Away Could Dangerous Dangerous Place Family Felt Get God Humiliated Know Many Me People Place Portrayed Read Reasonable Safety Settled Small Small Things Soon Space Things Wanted Who Would

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 24th, 1961

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