"The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over."

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Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.176, Vintage

Maxine Hong Kingston

#Differences Quotes #Mad Quotes #People Quotes

“When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.”
“But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.”
“I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.”

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“The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.”

Source : Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119
“Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.”
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”
“Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.”
“I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.”

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