Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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I am happy in Paris.
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It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
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But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
