Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
