"One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a…" — Jhumpa Lahiri

"One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist."

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning…
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks,…
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain…
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have…
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 Fist Quotes

This quote is filed under Fist Quotes, one of 321 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist. — David Allan Coe
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. — Alex Haley
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used… — Thomas G. Stemberg
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is… — Pat Summitt
You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a… — Ray Lewis
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it. — Elie Wiesel
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my… — Anne Sexton
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. — Leonard Cohen
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and… — Erma Bombeck
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in… — Frank I. Cobb

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