“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
Source: The Namesake
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Jhumpa Lahiri28
Short story writer, novelist 1967Related quotes
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As quoted in The Los Angeles Times (20 April 2003)
