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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.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tags: live, matter, job, painting

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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
Tags: reading, poetry, me, love
If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tags: way, look, you, relationship
I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tags: go, think, daughter, freedom
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tags: sort, campus, university, island
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.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tags: place, real, book, feel
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