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Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength
or else we die. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of Anand in Conch series which compared to foreign culture ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.' ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I heard the laments of the people of Hastinapur, their sorrow at losing us. But I no longer required their tears. It baffled me that as a younger women I'd thought that such a thing would make me happy. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.' ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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But Krishna was a chameleon. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet! ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.' ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I have a lot of respect and love for children's books. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you ... But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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To upset the delicate axis of giving and receiving on which our lives are held precarious. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day! ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Made to the other women when I joined them at night. The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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They say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes - and ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through aging yellow lights to get the Bose family to their destination on time. This disappoints Asif only a little. In his six years of chauffeuring the rich and callous, he has realized that, to them, servants are invisible. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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To me, characters are at the heart of great literature. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Instead of consoling us, my mother spoke sternly. 'Pull yourselves together. Surely I've brought you up better than this? we come into the world alone, and we leave it alone. And in between, too, if it is destined, we'll be alone. Draw on your inner strength. Remember, you can be your own worst enemy - or your best friend. It's up to you. And also this: what you can't change, you must endure.'
I knew it was mostly to me that she'd spoken. 'Endure'. A word solid as a tree trunk. A good word upon which to build a life, I thought. I would learn it, and it would help me through dark times. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Who is truly wealthy?
That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe,
past and future, are the same.
What is the most wondrous thing on earth?
Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones
left behind continue to live as though they were immortal. ~ Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni
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The power of a man is like a bull's charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won't get you what you want. His words perplexed me. Wasn't power singular and simple? In the world that I knew, men just happened to have more of it. (I hoped to change this.) ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I wonder if the story (though not intended as such by my aunt) is a warning for me, a preview of my own life which I thought I had fashioned so cleverly, so differently from my mother's, but which is only a repetition, in a different raga, of her tragic song. Perhaps it is like this for all daughters, doomed to choose for ourselves, over and over, the men who have destroyed our mothers. ~ Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
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This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. (How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.) ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault."

"I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Look out, world...this diva is about to break out! ~ Jamie Collins
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why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it - in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.

But was a woman's heart any purer, in the end?

That was the final truth I learned. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.

Already I was storing these lessons inside me. I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price.

But Krishna, the slippery one, the one who had offered me a different solace, Krishna with his disappointed eyes - what was the lesson he'd tried to teach? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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