Hualing Nieh Engle quotes

“A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.”
-- Hualing Nieh Engle

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“whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.”
-- Hualing Nieh Engle

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“I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.”
-- Hualing Nieh Engle

#Outsiders Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.”

“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”

“There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.”

“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”

“You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin

“Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.”

“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”

“Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.”

“We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.”

“A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.”