"To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting."

-- Amy Chua

#Parent Quotes #Asian Quotes #Honest Quotes

“There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's the justification for that? Well, you know, I had eight million things to say about that, but he put it in such a sharp, excruciating way that it was just very hard to handle it effectively.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.”
“It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.”
“I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.”
“In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you canâ€™t get a real experience from the world.”
“Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands...”

Source : "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.
“In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one â€“ yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.”

Source : Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr
“Arenâ€™t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandoraâ€™s box is a story parents read to their children at night,â€ she countered. â€œThat means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

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