Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

PoetryLiteratureBeyondBorders

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

John Cho

DemocracyMeetRespondKidsRoles

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

John McAfee

FearSometimesTurnThingsParanoid

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Michael Chang

ChangeDownToo MuchSometimesNeed

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Sophie Kerr

GreatMoreAnythingLongingProduce

So many of my followers who just graduated can't get jobs; they're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and they don't know what to do. My dream is to see a new generation of entrepreneurs who are creating and having more meaningful jobs than the day-to-day grind.

Michelle Phan

GenerationDreamGrindCreatingKnow

I'm not one of those superstitious people.

Luke Evans

PeopleThoseSuperstitious

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LivePeopleRichYouBeing Rich

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

ManPurposeWorldHeavenOfficeWho

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.

Donald Trump, Jr.

FatherPoliticsGameThinkDirty

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.

Debbie Macomber

MeFeelEnoughPersonThreeNever

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Conor McGregor

BestKidEverythingEvenHad

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

Bruce Forsyth

BusinessSadMeChanceFriendsYou

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