A Quote by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German - Novelist
May 7, 1927 - April 3, 2013

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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