"The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she……" — Bharati Mukherjee
"The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere."
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21 Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee has 21 quotes on this site.
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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a…
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I…
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I…
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really…
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously…
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in…
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I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate…
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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive…
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
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One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore…
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More Anywhere Quotes
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one of 2,209 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
— Fred Armisen
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
— Russell Baker
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
— Alec Baldwin
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
— John Barrymore
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
— Tony Blair
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
— Mary J. Blige
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