"And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?"

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Janice Y. K. Lee

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ends Quotes

“A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.”
“Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.”
“The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!”
“Live with the objective of being happy.”
“When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.”

Source : "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.
“When all else fails, read the instructions.”
“Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.”

Source : Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside
“I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.”

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