"Isolation offered its own form of companionship" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"
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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 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 Companionship Quotes
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one of 354 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
— Octavia Butler
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
— Grantland Rice
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the…
— Jack Kerouac
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
— Rita Hayworth
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
— Sherry Turkle
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
— Hosea Ballou
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
— Lew Wallace
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