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“What is art but another way of exerting power? It was inevitable.”
“Confidence is necessary in life - to leave your parents' home, to begin a new job, to travel. But too much confidence leads to complacency, and to believing that my way is the only way, that my worldview is the view.”
― Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
― Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
“...the more we value things outside our control, the less we have.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Since East Turkestan is home to large deposits of oil and natural gas, as well as mineral deposits and vast cotton fields that all add to the [Chinese Communist Party's} coffers, the stakes of a potential independence movement in the Uyghur region were high.”
― A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
― A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
“Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life.”
― The Curse of Pietro Houdini
― The Curse of Pietro Houdini
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