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a dream worth having
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the indian writer arundhati roy, burst onto the stage of world literature in 1997 with her first novel, the god of small things. the book went on to win the booker prize. since then, this one-time architect, movie script writer has become intensely engaged with struggles in the field of dam building- in the politics which sees people divested of ancestral lands and dams built, in the political decisions which saw india enter the circle of nuclear countries, armed with the bomb. she is a small woman with a big and fearless heart.
the following quotation is from her essay, the end of imagination, which is one of the two essays in the cost of living . here she recounts part of a conversation she had with a dear friend.
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You’ve lived too long in New York, I told her. There are other worlds. Other kinds of dreams. Dreams in which failure is feasible. Honourable. Sometimes even worth striving for. Worlds in which recognition is not the only barometer of brilliance or human worth. There are plenty of warriors that I know and love, people more valuable than myself, who go to war each day, knowing in advance that they will fail. True, they are "less successful" in the most vulgar sense of the word, but by no means less fulfilled.
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. (Prescience? Perhaps.)
‘Which means exactly what?’ (Arched eyebrows, a little annoyed.)
I tried to explain, but didn’t do a very good job of it. Sometimes I need to write to think. So I wrote it down for her on a paper napkin. This is what I wrote: To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
— Arundhati Roy, from The End of Imagination
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