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How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes - and
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why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
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I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.
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I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.
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To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
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She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.
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Each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone
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Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.
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Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.
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In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.
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The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.
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Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two
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It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
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I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.
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Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.
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Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable.
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Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate - or diminish - truth?
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Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.
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A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!
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Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world.
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How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
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I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.
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But Krishna was a chameleon.
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Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
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I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world ... Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
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To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
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I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations.
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With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.
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Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.
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I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?
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May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.
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She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.
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A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.
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She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.
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In the things we love lie clues to who we are. What we want for those we love.
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I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
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All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love.
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And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean.
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The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.
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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come.
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And the mother, who through all the years of her hardship had never shed a tear, wept at his trust and her deception.
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Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript
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If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
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Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
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In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
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Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
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Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.
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There is something in human beings that loves stories.
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Look out, world...this diva is about to break out!
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There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.
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Because ultimately only the witness and not the actors
knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
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To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
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But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
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A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.
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Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.
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Truth, like diamond, has many facets.
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But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.
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I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
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Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.
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There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.
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No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
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Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I
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I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
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A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.
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Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
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Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.
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I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.
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Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?
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Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument,
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Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali
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Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved.
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To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.
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We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
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Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?
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In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.
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Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.
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A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.
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You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.
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I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainablebut I always was so, only I never knew it! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
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I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.
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Don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.
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Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?
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I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.
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I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
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I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
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Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being
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Pain, which is ultimately only like itself.
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Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.
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The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.
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Each desire in the world is different, as is each love.
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I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.
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Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
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Each day has a color, a smell.
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Never choose something because it's easier.
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