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Jung Chang
“The Chinese language is extremely hard to learn. It is the only major linguistic system in the world that does not have an alphabet; and it is composed of numerous complicated characters – ideograms – which have to be memorised one by one and, moreover, are totally unrelated to sounds.”
Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Tim LaHaye
“Campbell said something else.”
Tim LaHaye, Thunder of Heaven

Michael Ondaatje
“The event that will light the way for immigration in North America is the talking picture. The silent film brings nothing but entertainment—a pie in the face, a fop being dragged by a bear out of a department store—all events governed by fate and timing, not language and argument. The tramp never changes the opinion of the policeman. The truncheon swings, the tramp scuttles through a corner window and disturbs the fat lady’s ablutions. These comedies are nightmares. The audience emits horrified laughter as Chaplin, blindfolded, rollerskates near the edge of the unbalconied mezzanine. No one shouts to warn him. He cannot talk or listen. North America is still without language, gestures and work and bloodlines are the only currency.”
Michael Ondaatje

Diane Merrill Wigginton
“No one else can close the door that God has opened for you,” she quietly said under her breath. That was something that Grandma Alice had said to her many times before her death.

“I miss you, Alice,” she whispered, “and wish you were here with me now.”
Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

Lisa Kaniut Cobb
“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

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