"Joy and life exist nowhere but the present." — Maxine Hong Kingston
"Joy and life exist nowhere but the present."
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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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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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist…
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
— Michele Bachmann
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
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