Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
Quotes to Explore
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
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You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
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You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.
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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
