"I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!"

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Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The best teacher is an entertainer.”
“I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.”
“Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.”

Source : Alex Comfort (1987). “The joy of sex: a Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking”, Pocket
“It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.”
“I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.”
“I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.”
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

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