Quotes
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Tan Twan Eng

"I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past."

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

Tan Twan Eng

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“I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.”
“I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]”
“Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.”
“To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.”
“A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”
“Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent a movie. You're in the video store and finally pick one out and your friend says, 'Oh, don't get that, it was on TV last week.' I hate when people say that. Who cares? Is it on TV right now? No? Good, then let's rent it.”

Source : Aaron Karo (2002). “Ruminations on College Life”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor.”
“The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.”

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