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“The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.”

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Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel 'The God of Small Things', which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Her works often explore social and political issues such as class, race, and gender. more

“I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.”

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“I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Eye Wish

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“Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's exhausting and very difficult to have to say, 'Look, I'm only one person. I can't do everything.' I know that I don't want to be worn to the bone where I lose my sense of humor.”

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“Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.”

Political Certain Seeing

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“I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.”

Needs Fiction Like You Exercise

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

Citizens

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“I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.”

Writing Follow Through

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“It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.”

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“One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.”

People Thinking Reason Space Angry Like Me

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