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Ken Liu Quotes

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

Ken Liu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Me Random Reality Logic Over About

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Jill Scott

Wait Write Inspiration Come Demand

As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

Robert Reich

Political Long Create Washington Big

I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

Angie Martinez

Respect Weird Doing Try Difficult

I live in Paris, a city where you have a lot of stylish women, so I learned a lot by observing the women in the street. But my mother was always a big influence as well; she is always very feminine in high heels and perfectly cut dresses, with perfect makeup but never too much.

Jeanne Damas

Mother Women Live City Stylish You

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

John Sununu

Balance World Believe Security Right

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Robert Frost

Work Worst Disease Egotism Supposed

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

Ry Cooder

Dawn Consciousness Chavez

Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated.

Michelle Dean

Vacation Reading New Leisure Been

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Judi Dench

Think Advice You Find Way Own

We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.

Jose Angel Gurria

Time Achieve Achieving Way Mean

We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20.

Jon Oringer

Year Presence Serve Global Customers

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

Dennis Quaid

Outdoors Texas Farmer Grandfather