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Maxine Hong Kingston
American
Writer
About the author
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
American
Writer
#Eating
#World
#Habit
#Hunger
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
American
Writer
#Success
#World
#Ideas
#Positive
#Change
#Values
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
American
Writer
#Work
#Hard work
#Gods
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.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
American
Writer
#Talk
#People
#Difference
#Variety
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
American
Writer
#Universe
#Mind