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"I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that ..." — Arundhati Roy

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy Novelist • Indian
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