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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Truth

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Inspiration

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Fulfillment Labor Self Reflection Work

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Freedom Mind Prison

What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’re sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we’ll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Future

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Confidence Difficulty Future Love Passion Young Love

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Imagination Thought

Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he’s going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can’t stop imagining the view from the top, the picture so arresting and beautiful that it too soon delivers him to a precarious ledge, where he can no longer turn back. And while it’s easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn’t this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Adventure Dream Fear Rationality

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Embodiment Humanity Inspirational Self

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Past Present Time Value Yesterday

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Cancer Disease Fate Sin

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-knowledge” or understanding one’s “true nature” but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Career Fan Self Awareness

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Quig Self Awareness Self Motivation

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-knowledge” or understanding one’s “true nature” but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee On Such A Full Sea Self Awareness

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Creative Writing Identity Mfa Programs Writing Writing Craft

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Creative Writing Identity Mfa Programs Writing Craft

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee Writing Me Think
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