"A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,"

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Jhumpa Lahiri

#Upbringing Quotes

“Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.”

Source : Joel Chandler Harris (2016). “Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings”, p.116, Library of Alexandria
“Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.”
“My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.”
“My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.”
“Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.”
“We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.”

Source : Irene Hunt (2002). “Across Five Aprils”, p.67, Penguin
“I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.”
“The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.”

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