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Top 15 Jonathan Lee Quotes (2024 Update)

Jonathan Lee Quote: “It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.”

1. “It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “Viv used to say there were two types of person in life, past tense and present tense. Viv had seen herself as a present-tense person, which gave her an excuse never to discuss what she felt about a thing that had already happened.”

2. “Viv used to say there were two types of person in life, past tense and present tense. Viv had seen herself as a present-tense person, which gave her an excuse never to discuss what she felt about a thing that had already happened.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “His family feared he might one day succumb to the catastrophe of being a poet.”

3. “His family feared he might one day succumb to the catastrophe of being a poet.”

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Jonathan Lee Quote: “The difference, in the end, between life and death is perhaps nothing more than movement?”

4. “The difference, in the end, between life and death is perhaps nothing more than movement?”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage of others, saw human loss shaped towards political ends, and though you hoped for the occasional gleam of uncontaminated compassion it seemed that the world was dimming.”

5. “You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage of others, saw human loss shaped towards political ends, and though you hoped for the occasional gleam of uncontaminated compassion it seemed that the world was dimming.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “She hated this feeling, the sensation of trying and failing to get her arms around something big. The way political opinions seemed always to be expressed with a total sureness of tone. The way that sureness was at odds with every true thought she’d ever had.”

6. “She hated this feeling, the sensation of trying and failing to get her arms around something big. The way political opinions seemed always to be expressed with a total sureness of tone. The way that sureness was at odds with every true thought she’d ever had.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “You wake up one day and realize you are a different person. That seems to be how life happens, how it establishes its patterns. The adult becomes a stranger to the boy he used to be. You become distant from everybody, especially yourself, even if, in the secrecy of your heart, you feel mostly unchanged.”

7. “You wake up one day and realize you are a different person. That seems to be how life happens, how it establishes its patterns. The adult becomes a stranger to the boy he used to be. You become distant from everybody, especially yourself, even if, in the secrecy of your heart, you feel mostly unchanged.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “He would go looking for it everywhere in the years to come. Love, love, love. As if it were a coin to be found in a field, or a park. As if it could be obtained without forfeiture.”

8. “He would go looking for it everywhere in the years to come. Love, love, love. As if it were a coin to be found in a field, or a park. As if it could be obtained without forfeiture.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “Love. This was the way not to fall into forgetting. Love, and a good publicist.”

9. “Love. This was the way not to fall into forgetting. Love, and a good publicist.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.”

10. “At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “There may be mistakes in the choice of means to attain an end. But success or failure also involves much that lies beyond our power. We are not responsible for the inevitable, nor for a knowledge that is beyond our reach. Solely the ends, honestly chosen, and consistently sought, determine the moral quality of a life.”

11. “There may be mistakes in the choice of means to attain an end. But success or failure also involves much that lies beyond our power. We are not responsible for the inevitable, nor for a knowledge that is beyond our reach. Solely the ends, honestly chosen, and consistently sought, determine the moral quality of a life.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “So yes, he could be funny. If you thought such things were funny. And the coffee had to be made with a specific number of beans. He could taste any errors in arithmetic.”

12. “So yes, he could be funny. If you thought such things were funny. And the coffee had to be made with a specific number of beans. He could taste any errors in arithmetic.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.”

13. “If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “All the best paintings made you see various levels of reality at once. They sent you inward as well as outward.”

14. “All the best paintings made you see various levels of reality at once. They sent you inward as well as outward.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “There are certain grudges that are every bit as irrational as they are uplifting. A person must protect them at all costs, especially in old age.”

15. “There are certain grudges that are every bit as irrational as they are uplifting. A person must protect them at all costs, especially in old age.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “A revelation is like a sneeze. Sounds unlikely, but it is. It can be lost, can simply vanish, if one does not look straight into the light and ask the inside to come out.”

16. “A revelation is like a sneeze. Sounds unlikely, but it is. It can be lost, can simply vanish, if one does not look straight into the light and ask the inside to come out.”

— Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee Quote: “How do we picture the past? Does it become clearer as it drifts into the distance? Can it be seen from more angles, a better vantage, with finer instruments for optics, and more supporting documentation to draw from? Or has its essence already vanished, leaving space for lies to multiply and thrive, spreading across paperwork that is good for nothing except, perhaps, a nervous acting captain’s next snack?”

17. “How do we picture the past? Does it become clearer as it drifts into the distance? Can it be seen from more angles, a better vantage, with finer instruments for optics, and more supporting documentation to draw from? Or has its essence already vanished, leaving space for lies to multiply and thrive, spreading across paperwork that is good for nothing except, perhaps, a nervous acting captain’s next snack?”

— Jonathan Lee

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