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If you are a human being in modern society on planet Earth, you need money to do pretty much everything, especially to grow into a more expansive version of yourself.
Quote by -Jen Sincero
Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.
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If you want to change your life, you have to do things you've never done before.
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We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different.
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I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money.
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If you're confident, then you don't feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they're afraid of admitting their weaknesses.
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We love to commiserate and troubleshoot and prepare for the worst, and gratitude yanks us out of that and reminds us of the ridiculous amount of infinite blessings that are around us at all times.
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People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.
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If you're taking a risk and you are not scared in some way, you're doing something wrong.
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Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
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Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you're sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.
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I'm in trouble with some activist women because I refuse to say I'm bisexual.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.
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People love to tell you what you should and shouldn't want, regardless of what you have to say about it.
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Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
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Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
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Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.
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The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
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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.
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I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
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I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
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Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.
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In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.
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I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
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Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
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I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.
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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
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Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
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It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
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I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.
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My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
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The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
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I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.
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I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
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I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.
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Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
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When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.
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I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.
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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
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Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
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As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.
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