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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)
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non Indians (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself or to deny him, she could not be sure (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The Greeks had had no clear notion of it. For them the future had been indeterminable. In Aristotle's teaching, a man could never say for certain if there would be a sea battle tomorrow (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
If I stop to think about fans, or bestselling, or not bestselling, or good reviews, or not - good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Certain creatures laid eggs that were able to endure the dry season. Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still (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 (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)