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Celeste Ng Quotes

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1980

Topics

Life Write She Right China Her

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Children Time Happy People Be Happy

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Live Alone People Think You Want

I went to see a children's matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called 'The Bad Seed.' It just terrified me.

Children Me Theatre Seed Seeing Bad

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Freedom American You Individual

The Internet has given us an unlimited platform of knowledge and inspiration. Sometimes the most efficient way to create a new sound is to cross between genres and experiment with noises/tempos that wouldn't normally go together.

Knowledge Together Internet Create

I always want to try for what's been offered to me.

Me Want Try Always Been Offered

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Back New Living New Orleans Years

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

Focus School People High School High

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

Poetry Go Personal Minds Technical

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Algernon Blackwood

Strange Wild Spinning Taste Tell

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

Thought Grow Feel Someone You Know

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

Mother Great Pain Growing Up Growing

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