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I was surprised at how cosmopolitan the Gold Rush was: prospectors were of all races, genders, and countries. I was equally surprised at how fast gold prospecting became big business. -- Laurence Yep
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Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. -- Laurence Yep
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And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little. -- Laurence Yep
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My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything. -- Laurence Yep
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times. -- Laurence Yep
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I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things. -- Laurence Yep
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At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.' -- Laurence Yep
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She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii."
"Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list. -- Laurence Yep
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My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867. -- Laurence Yep
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When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back. -- Laurence Yep
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Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be. -- Laurence Yep
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I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me. -- Laurence Yep
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While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction. -- Laurence Yep
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Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. -- Laurence Yep
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If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind."
"Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things lately," Leech said. "Enjoy it."
"Oog, and double oog," was all Koko could say. -- Laurence Yep
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In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels. -- Laurence Yep
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I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other. -- Laurence Yep
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school. -- Laurence Yep
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I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life
the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. -- Laurence Yep
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Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best. -- Laurence Yep
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The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. -- Laurence Yep
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No guts, no glory. -- Laurence Yep
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The with forbidden the death of warriors -- Laurence Yep
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Kindness comes with no price. -- Laurence Yep
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You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it. -- Laurence Yep