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Jhumpa Lahiri

American

July 11, 1967

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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 seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

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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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