Ken Liu Quotes
I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I'm not a violent person.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
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Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
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I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.
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I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
