"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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Source : "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

Bharati Mukherjee

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Country Quotes

“What kills me makes others stronger,”
“Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.”
“The love I knew was from books..”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.”
“I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room. I shoot needless footage and then don't use it later on in the process.”
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
“Right now, I don't believe [Donald Trump]. I don't trust him.”
“Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.”

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