Jerry Pinto Quotes

• A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

  Jerry Pinto

  Lying, Fiction, Heal

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• You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

  Jerry Pinto

  Strong, Long, People

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• 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

  Book, Civilization, People

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• I am no I. I am now part of a we.

  Jerry Pinto

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

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• Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

  Jerry Pinto

  Home, Grace, Wanted

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