Jerry Pinto quotes

Jerry Pinto quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
-- Jerry Pinto

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“You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If youâ€™re walking fast, if the sunâ€™s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into peopleâ€™s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.”
-- Jerry Pinto

#Strong Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes
“Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.”
-- Jerry Pinto

#Home Quotes #Grace Quotes #Wanted Quotes
“A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?”
-- Jerry Pinto

#Lying Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Heal Quotes
“I am no I. I am now part of a we.”
-- Jerry Pinto

Source : Jerry Pinto (2014). “Em and the Big Hoom”, p.78, Penguin UK

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