Olivia Chan

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Olivia’s Quotes

“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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“So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.”
― Alphonse Karr

tags: a-separate-peace, john-knowles

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“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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“Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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