"What made something precious? Losing it and finding it."

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Source : Celeste Ng (2014). “Everything I Never Told You: A Novel”, p.280, Penguin

Celeste Ng

#Losing Quotes #Made Quotes #Findings Quotes

“Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!”
“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”

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“Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting.”

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“Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.”
“I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.”
“A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.”
“In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.”
“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”

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