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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I write to feel alone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone Feel Write I Write

I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.

Life Commitment Believe My Life Duty

I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn't back down from that.

Age Year Back Down Want Years

I've tried to do the sad-bastard thing for long enough. I just want to have a good time.

Good Time Enough Long Want Just

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

Beautiful Water Myself Book Idiot

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Stephen Ambrose

Believe Equal Slaves He Created Did

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

Think Resolution Always Something Us

There are never enough hours in the day.

Day Enough Never Hours

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli

Life Forgiveness Without Resentment

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Work Wait Video Stores Tables

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

Christine McVie

Love Money Think Care Blues Got

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Brittany Murphy

Work Live Trying Know Living Out

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Placido Domingo

Man Young Young Man Whole Far Range

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