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Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved. I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back. People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it. I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She has the gift of accepting her life. She has the gift of accepting her life.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression. I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally. I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Avoiding puddles, stepping over mats of hyacinth leaves that remained in place. Breathing the dank air. Avoiding puddles, stepping over mats of hyacinth leaves that remained in place. Breathing the dank air.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass. So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me. Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Sexy means loving someone you do not know. Sexy means loving someone you do not know.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed. Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: He learned not to mind the silences. He learned not to mind the silences.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time. She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Do what I will never do. Do what I will never do.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things. She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days. There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him. Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again. I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: asked Paul to help him put it out on the asked Paul to help him put it out on the
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would. There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The camera slung around his neck ... was the only complicated thing he wore. The camera slung around his neck ... was the only complicated thing he wore.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives. My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher. No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young. Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things. She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins. He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I have only the desire. Yet ultimately a desire is nothing but a crazy need. As I have only the desire. Yet ultimately a desire is nothing but a crazy need. As
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I hope you don't mind my asking," Douglas said, "but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian? I thought you were Indian. I hope you don't mind my asking," Douglas said, "but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian? I thought you were Indian.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace. Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago. She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist. One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved. Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you. I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own. She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived. It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again. The Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again. The
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening. On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity. ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: A woman who had fallen out of love with her life A woman who had fallen out of love with her life
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime - a million? Two million? How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime - a million? Two million?
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction. All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I watched your father killed before my eyes, she might have said. I watched your father killed before my eyes, she might have said.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: What she'd done for him, because he'd asked. What she'd done for him, because he'd asked.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: It made him shy, they way he felt the first time they stood together in a mirror. It made him shy, they way he felt the first time they stood together in a mirror.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Brahmin who'd learned the tribal dialects. He refused Brahmin who'd learned the tribal dialects. He refused
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her. As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another. In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry. Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India. Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever. I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had. She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you. Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment. I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it's tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it's tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate. Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing. I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still. She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable. And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian. I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away. When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something. I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me. I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: It is the goddess Kali," Mrs. Dixit explained brightly, It is the goddess Kali," Mrs. Dixit explained brightly,
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: You remind me of everything that followed. You remind me of everything that followed.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast. Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved. She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality. He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me. I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler. The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me. In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question. I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told. The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M. The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: To Travel without moving an inch. To Travel without moving an inch.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim. He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity's pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven. The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity's pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain. The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: Odd things made him love her. Odd things made him love her.
Jhumpa Lahiri quotes: When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough. When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

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