"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."
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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…
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch…
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace,…
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution.…
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You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years,…
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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
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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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
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical…
— Henry Adams
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so…
— Jonathan Swift
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic…
— Thomas Hood
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
— George Santayana
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