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Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes: The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
         

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.


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In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something.



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A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.



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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.



I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

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We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.



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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.



Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.



I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.



The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again





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This page presents the quote "The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.". Author of this quote is Maxine Hong Kingston. This quote is about sane, variety, people, differences, mad,.