"Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off……" — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
"Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?"
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45 Quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has 45 quotes on this site.
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Often, others see you, as you see yourself
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Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans…
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Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.
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I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware…
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Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
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I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
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Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its…
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Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into…
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Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack…
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Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.
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Each day has a color, a smell.
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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . .…
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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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