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- My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother…
- I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
- And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
- Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
- We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I…
- I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not,…
- People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life.…
- Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation…
- I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on…
- It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
- I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and…
- Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what…
- When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the…
- We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
- All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
- After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
- how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
- I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more…
- And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
- For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now…
- But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I…
- Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the…
- Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
- My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off…
- Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle