"My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

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“Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.”
“Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.”
“Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.”
“With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.”
“If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.”

Source : "Interview: René Redzepi" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.
“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”
“I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.”

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