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Steve is nice but he's strictly entry level.
— Max Mitchell
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.
— Gish Jen
What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.
— Gish Jen
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.
— Gish Jen
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
— Gish Jen
There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.
— Jeaniene Frost
You couldn't count on Providence for anything ever.
— Ann Brashares
Justine, whenever someone says 'this is for your own good,' it's a guarantee they're about to cause you some kind of damage.
— Lisa Kleypas
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
— Tennessee Williams
There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
— Gish Jen
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
— Gish Jen
The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.
— J.D. Lakey
He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.
— Gish Jen
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!
— Gish Jen
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
— Epictetus
Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.
— Gish Jen
A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.
— Gish Jen
He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.
— Gish Jen
For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.
— Gish Jen
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
— Mario Batali