Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
