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Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

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That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special — these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gish Jen

Gish Jen

Born: August 12, 1955 (age 71)
Bio: Gish Jen, born Lillian Jen August 12, 1955, is a contemporary American writer.
Known for:
  1. Typical American (1991)
  2. Who's Irish? (1999)
  3. Mona in the Promised Land (1996)
  4. The love wife (2004)
  5. World and Town (2010)

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