Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Spite
  • Pants
  • Fifty