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Chang-Rae Lee

"We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears."

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

Chang-Rae Lee

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“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”
“If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.”
“Government is the enemy until you need a friend.”
“Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined that you'd have a story, too. Until that moment, you were just the kidnapper. You didn't have reasons for anything. You were stupid and evil and mentally ill. That was all. When you started talking, you started changing.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.
“People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.”
“We had stayed up all night my friends and I beneath mosque lamps hanging from the ceiling. Their brass domes were filigreed, starred like our souls; just as, again like our souls, they were illuminated by the imprisoned brilliance of an electric heart. On the opulent oriental rugs, we had crushed our ancestral lethargy, arguing all the way to the final frontiers of logic and blackening reams of paper with delirious writings.”
“If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.”

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