Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?
Quotes to Explore
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
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It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
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Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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A good thing never ends.
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Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.
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The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
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Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
