Alexander Chee Quotes
I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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I love the smell of a man's skin.
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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I'm always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o'clock when everybody's at their prime.
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Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
