Top 22 Firoozeh Dumas Quotes
#1. The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal. Show me a fancy house with a top-of-the-line gourmet kitchen, and I'll show you a family that eats out a lot.
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#2. Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.
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#3. Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
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#4. Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
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#5. My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.
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#6. We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you.
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#7. Swimsuit competitions go against everything that is right and decent in this world. We're told that beauty is on the inside and that who we are matters far more than what we look like. But could you please just put on this bikini and walk around on high heels so I can judge your inner beauty?
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#8. They have never heard of Lindsay Lohan. They are blessed.
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#9. To deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.
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#10. Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.
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#11. I always made sure to put them back in the exact order in which I had found them, for fear of losing the privilege of browsing in my uncle's library.
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#12. Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
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#13. The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now.
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#14. Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.
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#15. Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house
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#16. My parents are highly evolved worriers ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
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#17. In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.
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#18. Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell.
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#19. Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far more willing to try new ethnic foods ... It's like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry.
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#20. I was a VIP, a Very Iranian Person, and things just take longer for us.
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#21. Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.
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#22. Perhaps the people we think we know best are the ones who surprise us most.
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