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Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

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Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

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Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

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My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

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Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

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I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

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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.

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