#phr

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#despair #schizophrenia #understanding #understood #without

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#experience #gets #invents #labeled #live

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#event #fact #label #political #schizophrenia

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#american values #because #different #feel #french

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#daily #digest #fit #know #little