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• It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

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  Names, Clothes, Parent

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• That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

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  Love, Believe, Silly

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Nov 01, 2013

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• Do what I will never do.

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  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You remind me of everything that followed.

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  Namesake

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Groups, Ongoing, Relation

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

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  Rain, Thinking, People

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.189, A&C Black

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• And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

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  Girl, Her Beauty, Moments

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• My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.

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  Holiday, Adults, Looks

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 19, 2012

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• I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

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  Bystanders, Internet Access, People

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• Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

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  People, Purpose, World

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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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

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  Moving, Book, Opportunity

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

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  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

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  Growing Up, Moving, Loss

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 29, 2011

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• She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

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  Heritage, Sympathetic, Backgrounds

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• 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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  Character, May, Location

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• War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

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  War, Revolution

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

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  Issues, Morality

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• The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

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  Son, Broken, Way

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 31, 2010

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• If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

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  Thinking, Mirrors, Fans

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• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

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  Lying, Hands, Bikinis

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

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  Jobs, Character, Suspense

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, March 21, 2012.

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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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  Writing, Numbers, Giving

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