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> [“How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/how-does-a-copy-become-more-than-a-copy-is-art-the-creation-of/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

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## More by Madeleine Thien

> [“She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/she-wanted-to-tell-them-that-whatever-happened-whatever-they-chose/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/what-mattered-was-the-here-and-now-and-not-the-life-before-what/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/bertolt-brecht-i-would-also-like-to-be-wise-in-the-old-books-it-says/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, which are reprinted again on the next generation. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/the-things-you-experience-she-continued-are-written-on-your-cells-as/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“IN THOSE DAYS, your village might change hands every few weeks, one day to the Communists, the next to the Nationalists, the next to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/in-those-days-your-village-might-change-hands-every-few-weeks-one-day/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“Tomorrow begins from another dawn, when we will be fast asleep.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/tomorrow-begins-from-another-dawn-when-we-will-be-fast-asleep/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“He kisses her, and she knows, somehow, that he is asking for help, for an end to the sadness they are causing one another.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/he-kisses-her-and-she-knows-somehow-that-he-is-asking-for-help-for-an/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“If they want to come for you, they will come, and it doesn't matter what you read or what you failed to read. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/if-they-want-to-come-for-you-they-will-come-and-it-doesn-t-matter/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/if-some-people-say-what-is-in-their-hearts-and-other-people-say-what/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/when-she-returned-she-was-full-of-life-impassioned-she-seemed-to-want/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“She saw a soldier strike a boy ahead of her with his baton. Behind him, a girl turned and spat in the soldier’s face.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/she-saw-a-soldier-strike-a-boy-ahead-of-her-with-his-baton-behind-him/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/i-like-to-think-of-home-as-a-verb-something-we-keep-recreating/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/how-does-a-copy-become-more-than-a-copy-is-art-the-creation-of/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/what-was-misfortune-but-the-quality-of-existing-as-something-or/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

> [“I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-thien/i-ve-got-nothing-to-offer-you-kids-but-these-noodles-they-re-good/)

[Madeleine Thien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-thien/)

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