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.
About Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingstonis an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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