Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
