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Eight years later, in August 2016, a political storm engulfed Senator Sam Dastyari (which would a year later lead to his exit from parliament). Among the many revelations to emerge over the next couple of weeks was that a handful of very ...more
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“I’ve seen people living in every kind of house. And do you know what I’ve concluded from that? It’s that people are all the same, everywhere. Yangban, commoner, rich man, beggar, they’re all the same.”
Lee Geum-yi, The Picture Bride

Hye-Young Pyun
“Though it wasn’t a very nice method, whenever he felt like he didn’t understand his wife’s family, he simply told himself he was dealing with foreigners.”
Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

Yi Sang
“A red ink is spilled from an imitation heart. In my dream I am late. I am sentenced to death. I am not the ruler of my dream. It is a great crime to seal up two humans who cannot even shake hands.”
Yi Sang, Yi Sang: Selected Works

Yi Sang
“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
Yi Sang, The Wings

Hye-Young Pyun
“What he’d really returned to was this noisy, crowded, queuing, waiting, leering world. The world where, as his doctor explained, the only way to survive was through sheer force of will.”
Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

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