"I don't know why, but the older I……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison."
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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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 lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
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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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More Comparison Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
— Erykah Badu
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale…
— Bob Barr
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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