Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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A book is a machine to think with.
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That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
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Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!
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Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
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She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.
