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“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
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“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.”
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NEH CA Immigration
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A collection of book resources for scholars from the NEH Summer Institute: The Immigrant Experience in CA through Literature and Theatre.
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