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. (p159, "At the Western Palace")

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

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