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History is really a study of the future, not the past.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.
– Arundhati Roy

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  6. But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? – Arundhati Roy
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  8. Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin. – Arundhati Roy
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  11. Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us. – Arundhati Roy
  12. Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power. – Arundhati Roy
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  14. Enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can. – Arundhati Roy
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  17. Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, ???? You. – Arundhati Roy
  18. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. – Arundhati Roy
  19. From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. – Arundhati Roy
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  22. Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief. – Arundhati Roy
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