Bette Lord quotes
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“Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.”
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“If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.”
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“prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.”
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“The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.”
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“In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.”
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“to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.”
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“Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.”
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“A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.”
-- Bette LordSource : Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?”
-- Bette Lord
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