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It has always been the regular state of things. There is no clarity, no relief. At he end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.
— Ken Liu The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Tags: the-regulator, sadness, relief, rationality, indecisiveness, future, faith, decisions, clarity, choices

Other Quotes by "Ken Liu"

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
— Ken Liu
Tags: color, problems, face, women
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
— Ken Liu
Tags: forward, way, past, me
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
— Ken Liu
Tags: act, performance, doing, i-am
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
— Ken Liu
Tags: society, you, science, love
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
— Ken Liu
Tags: science-fiction, like, work, science
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