Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

Chang-Rae Lee

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• There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • People
  • Survival
  • Betrayal