A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. - Jhumpa Lahiri - Quotesmemo.com

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I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

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And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

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

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