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Quotes from The Ministry of Utmost Happiness — Arundhati Roy

born 1961 India

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8 quotes

In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies. (p358)

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Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us. (p260)

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The TV channels never ran out of sponsorship for their live telecasts of despair. They never ran out of despair. (p103)

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Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles (p165)

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In battle...enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can. (p273)

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People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market. (p198)

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Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires. (p261)

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maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes. (p155)

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arundhati Roy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.