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

— Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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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.

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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Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill. ("Earth" p269)

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