Laurence Yep quotes

“You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.”
-- Laurence Yep

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“Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.”
-- Laurence Yep

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“Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.”
-- Laurence Yep

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“I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.”
-- Laurence Yep

Source : Laurence Yep (2000). “Dragonwings: and related readings”

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“Kindness comes with no price.”
-- Laurence Yep

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“For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.”
-- Laurence Yep

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“So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”

Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.”

“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”

Source : "Weiwei-isms, By Ai Weiwei, trans. Larry Warsh". www.independent.co.uk. January 11, 2013.

“How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!”

Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.68, Halban Publishers

“I can't change the world. I have to fix me.”

“If you can educate girls, you can change the world.”

“Let the world change you and you can change the world”