Arundhati Royová citáty

„Myslím, že jsem byl docela vyspělým dítětem a celkem dětinským dospělým.“

Zdroj: [Arundhatí Royová: Spisovateli hrozí, že se stane eunuchem, novinky.cz, 2003-04-07, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/5519-arundhati-royova-spisovateli-hrozi-ze-se-stane-eunuchem.html]

„Jediná věc, která stojí za globalizaci, je hnutí odporu.“

„Americký způsob života není udržitelný. Neuznává, že existuje svět mimo Ameriku.“

Zdroj: Arundhati Royová na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/autori/arundhati-roy/cz/

„V okamžiku, kdy jsem ji uviděl, část mě vyšla z mého těla a ovinula se kolem ní. A stále tam zůstává.“

„Je jen jeden sen, který stojí za to … žít, dokud jste naživu, a zemřít jen tehdy, když jste mrtví.“

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”

Arundhati Royová: Citáty anglicky

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.”

Arundhati Roy kniha The God of Small Things

Zdroj: The God of Small Things

“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”

Zdroj: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005), p. 86
Zdroj: War Talk

“Our dreams have been doctored. We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter..”

Arundhati Roy kniha The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Zdroj: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.”

“Things can change in a day.”

“If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.”

Arundhati Roy kniha The God of Small Things

Zdroj: The God of Small Things

“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”

Arundhati Roy kniha The God of Small Things

Zdroj: The God of Small Things

“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

Arundhati Roy kniha The God of Small Things

Zdroj: The God of Small Things

“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”

From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf, given at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, 29 Sep 2002. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Zdroj: War Talk

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Zdroj: The Cost of Living

“You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.”

Arundhati Roy kniha The God of Small Things

Zdroj: The God of Small Things

“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.”