Quotes
Authors
Andrew Lam

"In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee."

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

Andrew Lam

#Dream Quotes #Children Quotes #Character Quotes

“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
“We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!”
“God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.”
“I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“The more united we are on the central questions of policy, the better it will be for the future of our country.”
“You canâ€™t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you â€”- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because theyâ€™re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I donâ€™t believe in God. Because he doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. Even if itâ€™s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a personâ€™s past canâ€™t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If thatâ€™s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isnâ€™t that like being god?”
“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”
“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”

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