"There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it."

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Source : Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Maxine Hong Kingston

#Philosophical Quotes #Trying Quotes #Curtains Quotes

“I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.”

Source : "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.
“If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.”
“Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.”
“I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.”
“Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”
“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”
“The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.”
“I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.”

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