Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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• That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

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  Travel, Moving, Book

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, September, 2003.

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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

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  Mind, Fiction, Way

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• It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

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  Real, People, Dimensions

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• Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

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  Writing, Assertive, Willfulness

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• The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

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  Book, Personality, Style

  "My Life’s Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

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  Inspiration, Mean, Writing

  "Trading Stories" by Jhumpa Lahiri, www.newyorker.com. June 13&20, 2011.

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• A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

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  Imperfect Things, Imperfect, Rich

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

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  Stories, Want, Next

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• Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

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  Regret, World, Namesake

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Apr 11, 2011

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• We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

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  Hurt, Mistake, People

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• I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

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  Writing, Thinking, Roles

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• The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

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  Book, Firsts, Embrace

  "OPINION; My Life's Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Ordinary, Meals

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Nov 18, 2010

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• Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

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  Night, Silence, Promise

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 30, 2013

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• 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.

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  Names, People, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010

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• Isolation offered its own form of companionship

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  Companionship, Isolation, Form

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.237, A&C Black

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• It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

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  Writing, Mean, Reality

  "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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• And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

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  Life, Mistake, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 22, 2013

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• He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. 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.

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  Missing, Bangs, Cameras

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Mar 23, 2012

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• Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

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  Echoes, News, Namesake

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 08, 2011

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• With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

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  Children, Forget, Clock

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

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  Sexy, Mean, Loving Someone

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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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• 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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