Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

Jim Crace

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Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

John C. Calhoun

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I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

Andy Cohen

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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Andrew Carnegie

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I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

Steve Bannon

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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

Steven Hall

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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

Siobhan Fahey

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My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

Sloane Crosley

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I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

Rory Kinnear

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When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Mary Roach

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It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

Lucas Grabeel

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