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Book cover for TigerFish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and her coming of age in America
Instead of feeling sad watching my father working as a gas station attendant, after a lifetime of being a commanding officer, or of my mother, who had not worked since she was a teenager, now pregnant and slaving away over the hot grills, I ...more
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Randy Pausch
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Fran Lebowitz
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Young women are getting a distorted message that their right to match men drink for drink is a feminist issue. The real feminist message should be that when you lose the ability to be responsible for yourself, you drastically increase the chances that you will attract the kinds of people who, shall we say, don’t have your best interest at heart. That’s not blaming the victim; that’s trying to prevent more victims.”
Emily Yoffe

Fran Lebowitz
“To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.”
Fran Lebowitz

E.B. White
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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