"In a time of destruction, create something."

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Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Maxine Hong Kingston

#Hope Quotes #Destruction Quotes

“I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.”
“I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.”
“I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.”
“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”
“If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.”
“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”
“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”
“Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.”

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