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Greek Lessons
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Jhumpa Lahiri
“The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri
“...learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Arundhati Roy
“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Jhumpa Lahiri
“It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

John Berger
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known.

Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the battlefields, tending the wounded, listening to the wild monologues of the triumphant or the fearful. They bring a kind of peace. Not by anaesthesia or easy reassurance, but by recognition and the promise that what has been experienced cannot disappear as if it had never been. Yet the promise is not of a monument. (Who, still on a battlefield, wants monuments?) The promise is that language has acknowledged, has given shelter, to the experience which demanded, which cried out.”
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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