"A lot of my upbringing was about denying……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,"
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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri has 85 quotes on this site.
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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning…
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
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I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
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A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks,…
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Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain…
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have…
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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which…
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Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
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More Denying Quotes
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one of 370 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on.…
— Tony Campolo
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If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
— Margaret Cho
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I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be…
— Hillary Clinton
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Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against…
— William J. Clinton
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
— James Madison
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
— George Santayana
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