You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how … - Chang-Rae Lee

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Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

Chang-Rae Lee

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

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For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

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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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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

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Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

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