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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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 believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.
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A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
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I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.
