"The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult."

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Jhumpa Lahiri

#Holiday Quotes #Sides Quotes #Adults Quotes

“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”
“I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.”
“There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.”
“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”
“There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.”
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”
“The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.
“Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers likeÂ these.”

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