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• Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,…
• There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
• Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
• The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing…
• I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
• The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very…
• And I had to get out of hating range.
• A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the…
• You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
• Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand…
• Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

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