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“When I began writing stories as a child, I wrote copies of what I read, and in many respects, that is what I’ve have continued doing, in only a slightly less obvious way. The illusion of artistic freedom is just that, an illusion. No words are “my words”—I merely arrange and use them in a certain way.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

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When I began writing stories as a child, I wrote copies of what I read, and in many respects, that is what I’ve have continued doing, in only a slightly less obvious way. The illusion of artistic freedom is just that, an illusion. No words are “my words”—I merely arrange and use them in a certain way.
— Jhumpa Lahiri