Quotes by : Chang-rae Lee

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve....

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most....

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave....

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-knowledge”....

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

What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’re....

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo....

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