Han Suyin Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.
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Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
