Alex Tan quotes

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
-- Alex Tan

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“Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.”
-- Alex Tan

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“What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?”
-- Alex Tan

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“Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.”
-- Alex Tan

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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.”

“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.”

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!”

“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”

“I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.”