A Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri
American - Author
Born: July 11, 1967

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

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N. T. Wright

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Alex Jones

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Mardy Fish

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Kimberly Willis Holt

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Feisal Abdul Rauf

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Wallace Stegner

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