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Suzanna Arundhati Roy ist eine indische Schriftstellerin, politische Aktivistin und Globalisierungskritikerin. Ihr literarisches Werk umfasst den Roman „Der Gott der kleinen Dinge“, mehrere politische Sachbücher und zahlreiche Essays.

✵ 24. November 1961  •  Andere Namen Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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Der Gott der kleinen Dinge
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„Für jeden „Terroristen“, jeden „Handlanger“ der getötet wird, werden auch Hunderte unschuldiger Menschen getötet. Und an die Stelle von hundert Unschuldigen, die sterben mussten, treten wahrscheinlich ein paar künftige Terroristen.“

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Essay http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,165236-2,00.html im SPIEGEL 44/2001

„Manche Dinge sind ihre eigene Strafe.“

Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Der Gott der kleinen Dinge, S. 136. Übersetzer: Anette Grube. btb Goldmann Verlag März 2000, ISBN 3-442-44838-7 <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;Some things come with their own punishment.&quot; - The God of Small Things. p. 115 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=0mhCpXdzLt4C&amp;pg=PA115

„Ich sehe bei Bin Laden und bei Bush das gleiche Handlungsmuster.“

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Interview mit Michael Sontheimer in &quot;DER SPIEGEL&quot;, 15/2003, spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-26797625.html

„Jede Gesellschaft muss ihren eigenen Weg finden, Unrecht und Unterdrückung zu bekämpfen.“

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Interview "DER SPIEGEL", 15/2003

„Der ganzen Welt ginge es besser ohne einen gewissen Mister Bush.“

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&quot;DER SPIEGEL&quot;, 15/2003 <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;the whole world would be better off without a certain Mr. Bush.&quot; - Confrontimg Empire. Ansprache am 27. Januar 2003 auf dem World Social Forum, Porto Alegre. outlookindia.com 30. Januar 2003 http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Confronting-Empire/218738

Arundhati Roy: Zitate auf Englisch

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

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“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.”

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

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

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Arundhati Roy buch The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Quelle: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“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..”

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

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“Things can change in a day.”

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“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.”

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Quelle: 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.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“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.”

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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">Quelle: War Talk

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

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

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

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“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.”

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

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Arundhati Roy buch The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”

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“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

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“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”

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“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“Some things come with their own punishments.”

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Arundhati Roy buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge

Quelle: The God of Small Things

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”

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Quelle: The God of Small Things

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

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