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Jhumpa Lahiri

"I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories."

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"I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

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"Forget your past, live for the present day."

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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

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"Time is the longest distance between two places."

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"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."
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"Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books."
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"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."
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"I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed."
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"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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