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I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Bombarded Constant Constantly Day Haiti Information Need Never Next Off Out Pounding Range Room Second Somalia Television Want Whole Without World Write Cnn

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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 a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Am America American Asian-American Been Citizens Deliver Demand Dream Equally Promises Race Really Rejection Treachery I Am

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The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: America Contrast Democracy Equal Equal Opportunity Exists Goal Ideal Live Myth Nation Opportunity Reach Sovereign States To Live By United United States

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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 Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Another Canada Commitments Decide Down Emotional Enough Feel Find Indian Make Me Place Political Put Roots Social Stay Where I Can

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My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Acid Break Business Dress Enough Even Face Family Father Feminine Had Hard Hint Me Mother Muddy Never Opportunity Played Providing Rivals Rules Scandal Throw Toy

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In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Consequences Drivers India Jeopardize Pedestrian Real Spot Who

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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Age Alone Always Behind Bodyguards Care Constantly Couple Growing Growing Up Guarded Had Handled Know Me Money Needed Never Notebook Out Pencils School Street Taking Took Up Walked Wanted Were Who You

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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 a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Above Been By The Time Cable Coffee Courtship Daddy Day Father Fellow Fiction Get Had Having Iowa Lawyer Lunch Office Saying Sent Shop Student Time Wedding Where Workshop You Mrs

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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Beings Complex Fiction Human Human Beings Just Mainstream Make New Other Readers See Through

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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: America American Appreciate Me Myths National Offer Qualities Special Truly

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: July 27th, 1940

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