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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

For Gogol Ganguli- The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country "an eternal pregnancy"; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define. — G. Willow Wilson

She has the gift of accepting her life. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

It is the goddess Kali," Mrs. Dixit explained brightly, — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler. — Jhumpa Lahiri

No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

It's easier to surrender to confinement. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it! — Jhumpa Lahiri

You remind me of everything that followed. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved. — Jhumpa Lahiri

He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away. — Jhumpa Lahiri

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed. — Jhumpa Lahiri

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war, — Jhumpa Lahiri

He learned not to mind the silences. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Do what I will never do. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. — Jhumpa Lahiri

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives. — Jhumpa Lahiri

asked Paul to help him put it out on the — Jhumpa Lahiri

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me ... so hard, so painful at times. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait. — Jhumpa Lahiri

My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The camera slung around his neck ... was the only complicated thing he wore. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I — Jhumpa Lahiri

station on Cape Cod looks close to where you are. It's in a place called Wellfleet. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I write to feel alone. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had. — Jhumpa Lahiri

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri

No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate. — Jhumpa Lahiri

He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before — Jhumpa Lahiri

Is it really pain you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt? — Jhumpa Lahiri

I love Rome. I'm very happy there. I wasn't in New York. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering. — Jhumpa Lahiri

To Travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Odd things made him love her. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It made him shy, they way he felt the first time they stood together in a mirror. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Brahmin who'd learned the tribal dialects. He refused — Jhumpa Lahiri

I realize that it's impossible to know a foreign language perfectly. For — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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