Arundhati Roy Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The writer is the midwife of understanding.

  Arundhati Roy

  Understanding, Midwife

  Source: progressive.org

• When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Army, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the recipe for "happiness" for the human race, and what has generally been decided counts as "progress." People arrive at a different understanding of happiness, however fragile it is. They find it in unexpected ways, in the most unexpected of places.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Thinking, Effort

  Source: www.progressive.org

• In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, People, Understanding

  Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk

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