"We are all #humans and we all make……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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