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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. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: America Anyway Created Does Fixed History Ideology Know Like Mean Number Out People Say Taliban Things Wipe You

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Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: About Access American Average Average American Equally Everybody India Life More Natural Natural Resources Normal Person Resources Sharing Things

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I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

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Topics: Against Believe Dream Easily Hold Indian Must Nothing Right Romance Romantic Something Village Would I Believe I Believe That

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I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

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Topics: Feel Known Loved Means Truly Writer

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There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

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Topics: Been Case Fiction Humiliating Made More Nothing Than Writer

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When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

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Topics: Almost Been Cinema Created Decided Decision God Had People Platform Read Small Small Things Things Thought Trust Working Would Write

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Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

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Topics: Commercial Commercial Success Heart However Lot Market Never Out Placing Rewarding Shutting Succeeded Success Them Writers Years

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My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Activists Because Character Could Deal Escaped Fellini Film Her Like Mile Mother Own Performing Run Set She Universe Who Whole Would

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I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Am Because Been Capitalism Communist Destructive History Just Movements I Am

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I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Any Blood Career Directly Edges Everything Fingernails Further Going Impossible Living Look Me Places Politically Project Things Using Way Which You

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 24th, 1961

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