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This was why he had never worried himself about how America viewed his children, never bothered himself over unflattering stereotypes and prejudices. What did it matter how a country full of white people saw them when the whole world was
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“Every language is a way of imagining the world. English, for example, is sharp and precise. Spanish tends to be baroque. It is obvious that they have adapted to the needs of the peoples who speak them, because both have stood the test of time. From time to time, academics accept new words that have already been tested in everyday speech, or accept as correct constructions they previously considered ungrammatical. These new words are leaves on a tree that is already lush with foliage, and the new constructions are the pruning, which helps it to grow; but the tree is still the same tree.”
― Kamchatka
― Kamchatka
“Revisiting the places that captured your heart when you were young is always unwise. You hope they remain trapped in time and that their magic is still potent. But invariably they have changed, just as you have, leaving you questioning your memories and wondering if they are wishful thinking or merely imagined.”
― The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
― The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
“... If you wall a country or a civilization, you misshape it, too, as certainly as if you strangled it with bindings. You have built the wall not just outside but inside, and what you have walled up will be grotesque and stunted, whether you look at it from the moon or elsewhere.”
― Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
― Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
“...What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“When you grow up, it won’t happen slowly, like it does for other kids. It will happen all at once. On that day, you will change, and you will remember that day, that moment, for the rest of your life”
― That Time I Loved You
― That Time I Loved You
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