Maxine Hong Kingston - People Quotes

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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.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

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People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

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I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

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The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

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