The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. (Jhumpa Lahiri)

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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