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Her town has stayed with me ever since. Mrs. Oudshoorn gave me more than the hospitality of her home. She gave me Delft.
“The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was “taking off your pants to fart”—wasted effort.”
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
“The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you’re watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it’s over. When”
― Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
― Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
“Like all Chinese youth, the first sentence he’d learned in school was “Long live Chairman Mao!” To be carrying out the chairman’s orders gave the precocious eleven-year-old a powerful sense of purpose and self-worth. “The more ruthless we are to enemies, the more we love the people,” the team would chant together.”
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
“I liked the way it felt to speak Chinese—the elegant rise and fall of the tones, the sensuous way my tongue flitted about my mouth and the economy of a language that needed very few words to say a lot. Speaking good French demands control of one’s lips; American English relies on an open mouth; but Chinese can be spoken perfectly even through clenched teeth. “Picture your tongue as a butterfly,” one of my instructors would say, and there it would be, flapping against my mouth and banging against my teeth as I sought to harness it and speak Chinese.”
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
― Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
“poker is an incredibly mathematical game that depends on making probabilistic judgments amid uncertainty, the same skills that are important in any type of prediction.”
― The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
― The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
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