JLJhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

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02Undated

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

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03Undated

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.

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