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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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.
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See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.
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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.
