"Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over."

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Source : Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.845, St. Martin's Press

Alan Brennert

#Song Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Islands Quotes

“There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.”
“I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.”
“I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.”
“It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.”
“I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.”
“In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.”
“We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.”
“If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need. Adults think. Kids respond with their feelings. They don't think about what you will think of their answer, so they just speak the truth-if you can get to them before junior high school age. At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.”

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