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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.
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The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
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No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.
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In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
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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.
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It's easier to surrender to confinement.
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it!
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You remind me of everything that followed.
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Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
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She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.
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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.
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When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.
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What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.
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In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.
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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.
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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.
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Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.
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War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war,
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He learned not to mind the silences.
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Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
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Do what I will never do.
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She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
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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
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.
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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
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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.
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The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
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There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.
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My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
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My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.
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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.
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I write to feel alone.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
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Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
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I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.
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With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.
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She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
To Travel without moving an inch.
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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.
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The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.
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Odd things made him love her.
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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.
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Brahmin who'd learned the tribal dialects. He refused
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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.
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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.
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The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
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