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Quotes from Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon — Jhumpa Lahiri

born 1967 United States

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Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jhumpa Lahiri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.