Chang-Rae Lee Quotes
They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.
Quotes to Explore
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
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I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'
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The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
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True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
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We've had such robust economic indicators over the past few months that today's report was really regarded as a sign of relief.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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At some point you have to sit back and say, you know, it doesn’t matter what this guy does, they want to impeach him.
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I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, through getting older and being secure within that.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.
