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Quotes from Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book — Maxine Hong Kingston

born 1940 United States

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Community is not built once-and-for-all; people have to imagine, practice, and re-create it. (p306)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

What's crazy is the idea that revolutionaries must shoot and bomb and kill, that revolution is the same as war. (p305)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

The lights of the city on hills make a vertical shimmer from sky straight into the water, like a backdrop, like a dream. (p37)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

He spent the rest of the night looking for the plot of our ever-branching lives. A job can't be the plot of life, and not a soapy love-marriage-divorce--and hell no, not Viet Nam. (p288)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

She's lived for a long time, and in many places. Lucky to have her here now. (p268)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

Whatever there is when there isn't war has to be invented. What do people do in peace? Peace has barely been thought. (p306)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

He did too have a philosophy of life: Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people. (p223)

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maxine Hong Kingston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.