"There's something in life that's a curtain, and……" — Maxine Hong Kingston
"There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it."
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41 Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston has 41 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see…
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it,…
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in…
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
— Grover Cleveland
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
— George M. Cohan
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their…
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the…
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We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
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When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a…
— Rex Harrison
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I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or…
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