Arundhati Roy Quotes
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Everyone is going to die.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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Love has no age.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
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It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.
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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
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Thirty-one.Not old.Not young.But a viable die-able age.
