Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes - Page 4

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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

  Fifty, Pants, Pairs

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  New York, Writing, Fiction

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• 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

  Couple, Stories, Saws

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