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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
Explore more quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston

"I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions."

"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways."

"The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over."

"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."
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