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What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
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Fiction Mainstream Reader
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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Feels Home Traveler
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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Farmers Farming Modesty
I’m very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don’t really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It’s about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.
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Energy Father Soul
Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
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Back Caste Class Home Selected Studying
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta:
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Father Home Writing
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.
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Different Filters Light
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
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Children Mind Poetry
In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.
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Battles Criticisms Mother Overall Toppel
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Mind Roots
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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Duty Inspire Teacher Teaching
Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.
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Mother Taken Winning
She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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Probably Runs Unvoiced Young
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.
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Motive Time
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.
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Couple Growing Notebook Up
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it’s just continuous overload.
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Definitions Littles Madness

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