"It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life."

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Source : "Maxine Hong Kingston embarks on new life chapter" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. January 23, 2011.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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“Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.”

Source : Song: Tallahassee Lassie
“I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”
“You can't force someone to sell property in America,”

Source : "In recording said to be of Clippers' Sterling, racist claim denied" by Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2014.
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”

Source : Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969
“I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,”
“I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.”
“I think people understand things different when they get older. Itâ€™s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe Iâ€™m just understanding things different. Better.”

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