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Arundhati Roy est une écrivaine et militante indienne. Elle est notamment connue pour le roman Le Dieu des Petits Riens, pour lequel elle a obtenu le prix Booker en 1997, et pour son engagement en faveur de l'écologie, des droits humains et de l'altermondialisme.

✵ 24. novembre 1961  •  Autres noms Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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“La nuit avait les coudes posés sur l'eau où ricochaientles fragiles échardes des étoiles filantes.”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

“Il est capable de mettre au jour la douleur qui est au coeur du bonheur. (p.305)”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

“Besoin inconscient chez l'homme de détruire ce qu'il ne peut ni soumettre ni adorer. (p.401)”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

“L'enfance n'avait laissé sur eux aucune trace. Dépourvus de curiosité comme de doutes, ils étaient à leur manière terriblement adultes. (p.344)”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

“Quand elles en eurent assez d'avoir attendu, les odeurs du dîner descendirent des rideaux et s'échappèrent par les fenêtres de l'hôtel pour aller danser sur la mer jusqu'au petit matin.”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

“Quand par hasard elle changeait de chaîne, toutes ces famines, ces épidémies, ces guerres télévisuelles l'affolaient. (…) Elle considérait famines, génocides et purifications ethniques comme autant de phénomènes susceptibles de mettre son mobilier en péril.”

Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy: Citations en anglais

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

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“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”

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“Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's
Source: The God of Small Things (1997)

“There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”

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“And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”

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“Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

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Source: The God of Small Things (1997)

“They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.”

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Source: The God of Small Things (1997)

“He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.”

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“When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

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“I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.”

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“With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U. S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.”

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Source: Come September

“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”

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Source: The God of Small Things

“I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?”

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“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.”

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Arundhati Roy livre Le Dieu des Petits Riens

Source: The God of Small Things

“He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.”

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“Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.”

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From a speech entitled Confronting Empire http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&amp;ItemID=2919 given at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, 28 January 2003 <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Variante: Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. <br class="br">Source: War Talk

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