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Jhumpa Lahiri

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  • María José Evia H.has quoted4 years ago
    Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me
  • María José Evia H.has quoted4 years ago
    I believe that what can change our life is always outside of us.
  • María José Evia H.has quoted4 years ago
    A conversation involves a sort of collaboration and, often, an act of forgiveness.
  • Tatiana Palasovahas quoted5 years ago
    Those who don’t belong to any specific place can’t, in fact, return anywhere.
  • Tatiana Palasovahas quoted5 years ago
    I didn’t write, if I didn’t work with words, I wouldn’t feel that I’m present on the earth.
  • Tatiana Palasovahas quoted5 years ago
    What I hear, in the shops, in the restaurants, arouses an instantaneous, intense, paradoxical reaction. It’s as if Italian were already inside me and, at the same time, completely external. It doesn’t seem like a foreign language, although I know it is.
  • Tatiana Palasovahas quoted5 years ago
    As if I had known it for years, even though there is still everything to discover. I would be unsatisfied, incomplete, if I didn’t learn it.
  • lizzylizardhas quoted5 years ago
    L’imperfezione dà lo spunto all’invenzione, all’immaginazione, alla creatività. Stimola. Più mi sento imperfetta, più mi sento viva.
  • Tatiana Palasovahas quoted5 years ago
    What I hear, in the shops, in the restaurants, arouses an instantaneous, intense, paradoxical reaction. It’s as if Italian were already inside me and, at the same time, completely external. It doesn’t seem like a foreign language, although I know it is
  • Ольга Тоболеваhas quoted5 years ago
    what moves me, what confuses me, what pains me—everything that makes me react, in short—I have to put it into words. Writing is my only way of absorbing and organizing life. Otherwise it would terrify me, it would upset me too much.
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