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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures I have lived a large life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 27
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Maxine Ting Ting Hong
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Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
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Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.
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