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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. (Epilogue)

— Maxine Hong Kingston The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

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In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

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Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

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I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.

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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

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