Jhumpa Lahiri quoteJhumpa Lahiri [1967-0]
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I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language. |
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