Min Jin Lee Quotes

#1. ...a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.

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#2. Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals

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#3. Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

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#4. All these people - both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.

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#5. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.

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#6. The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

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#7. I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

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#8. There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.

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#9. There was more to being something than just blood.

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#10. Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge - it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

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#11. People are awful. Drink some beer." Haruki

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#12. And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak's son? He doesn't look like me." Sunja

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#13. Even if there were hundred bad Japanese, if there was one good one, he refused to make a blanket statement

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#14. In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

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#15. a man must learn to forgive - to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

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#16. People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants." Sunja

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#17. All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

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#18. The world was cruel with its rations.

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