"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."

-- William Faulkner

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“We had to google the lyrics to our own song”
“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.”
“The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.”

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“Put opportunity ahead of security.”
“Don't take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it”
“It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.”
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”

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