"Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction"

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Source : "Growing up in the world". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

Tash Aw

#Country Quotes #Years Quotes #Generations Quotes

“I wear sports clothes because I feel comfortable in them.”
“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”
“I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.”

Source : Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com
“He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.”
“I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.”
“It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.”
“Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.”

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