"No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu……" — Chang-Rae Lee
"No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines."
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28 Quotes by Chang-Rae Lee
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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
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For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of…
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For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
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You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person…
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the…
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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map…
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And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact…
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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
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A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling…
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For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
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Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
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