"I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down."

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Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Home Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Desire Quotes

“True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.”
“It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.”

Source : Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”
“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
“I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.”
“Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.”
“I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.”
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.
“There is no art when one does something without intention.”

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