#ted

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#being #being different #clothes #different #i

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

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. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#after #anyone #commits #constitution #could

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#hearts #people #remembering #their #voted

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#aging #care #fight #good #i

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ↗

— Emile Lahud

#country #democracy #good #good governance #governance

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#hundred #life #life is a #mortality #percent

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#change #deeds #fail #failing #how

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#alienation #beings #destiny #human #human beings