To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.
Arundhati RoyRead
Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
Interpretation
Grief can be both a personal and shared experience, affecting individuals differently.
The quote reflects the profound impact of grief on individuals, highlighting how one's sorrow can deeply affect others. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of human emotions, illustrating that while one's grief is a personal journey, it can resonate powerfully with others, creating a shared understanding of loss and heartache.
In practice
In a eulogy to express the shared pain of loss during a memorial service.
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.
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.
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease, you are still left with physics.
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
If you want to improve a relationship, it's not that you demand your spouse to change. You have to ask, 'Where did I fail in this relationship?'
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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