"I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be."
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"One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong."
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"I think this would be a good time for a beer."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic."
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"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom"
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"I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting."
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"A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?"
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"If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless."
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"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
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"If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place."
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"I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things."
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"I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't."
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"[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50."
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"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we."
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"There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow."
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"I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics."
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"Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless."
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"You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of."
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"I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be."
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