"There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

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“Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.”
“If you donâ€™t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.”
“I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics”
“If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Â Do you understand that? Â So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. Â If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. Â People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.”
“I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot. And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom's jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, standing backstage without our pants on. It's like a curse.”
“Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.”

Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
“You are the one that you are looking for.”

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