Jhumpa Lahiri - Spite Quotes

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That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

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But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

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The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

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