"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: 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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Source : "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

Bharati Mukherjee

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“Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.”

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“It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.”
“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”
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“I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.”

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“The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.”
“Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.”
“They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability”

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