Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
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- That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- …that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- …American book jackets reflect the spirit of country – little homogeneity, lots of diversity. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- A woman who had fallen out of love with her life – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Those who don’t belong to any specific place can’t, in fact, return anywhere. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before – Jhumpa Lahiri
- I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things. – Jhumpa Lahiri
- When you unfold your spirit, you unfold your dream. – Stephen Richards
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie
- Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary. – Kaiden Blake
- Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. – Judy Garland
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie
- The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly. – Himmilicious
- Everyone can be trusted. You just can’t give them more than they can be trusted with. – Mikaela Bender
- Women weren’t to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren’t to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that. – Margaret Way
- Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much – Anonymous
- People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it. – Sara Levine
- It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won’t. – Justin Taylor
- The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. – Robert Conquest
- You’ll never understand someone if you can’t stop assuming you already know everything about them. – Melissa Abigail
- Stop assuming the worst. Give others the benefit of the doubt. – Walter E Jacobson
- Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. – Stephen Richards
- Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks. – Julie James
- I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. – Saleem Haddad
- Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. – Gail Caldwell
- The goal is to create a -œchit,- or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time. – Carla Harris
- 20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut. – Ryan Lilly
- And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things. – Donato Carrisi
- Look, you don’t know what makes me tick, so stop assuming you do. – Codi Gary
- If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. – Antoine de SaintExupry
- Stop assuming I don’t have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel. – Tina J Richardson
- Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener. – Terry a ONeal
- Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you. – Molly Friedenfeld
- And I’m not assuming and I’m not judging. I’m just being curious. – Ned Vizzini
- since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light – Charles Bukowski