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• ‟ The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

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• ‟ The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

  - Jhumpa Lahiri
  

• ‟ My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

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• ‟ The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

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• ‟ The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

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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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• ‟ I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

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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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