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

Bharati Mukherjee

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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Inattention India Real
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Mind Roots
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
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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Farmers Farming Modesty
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where
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Cities Country Iowa
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter.
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Daughter Father Mother
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns.
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Childhood Mother Two
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
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Children Mind Poetry
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
You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
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Moment Needed School Taking
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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Duty Inspire Teacher Teaching
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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Feels Home Traveler
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
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Captivity Four Years
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
My first novel, ‘The Tiger’s Daughter,’ embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man’s land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
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Country Daughter Mother
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
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Citizens Government Mean

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