"I learned to make my mind large, as……" — Maxine Hong Kingston

"I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions."

41 Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar…
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…
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,…
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.…
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,…
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,… — Andre Breton
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all… — Simone de Beauvoir
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether… — Thomas Paine
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing… — Taisen Deshimaru
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to… — L. Sprague de Camp
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them.… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and… — Sigmund Freud
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical… — Henry Adams
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,… — Thomas Jefferson
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so… — Jonathan Swift
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic… — Thomas Hood
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana

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