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#1

“Time is not the most valuable thing in your life, since you're not spending it wisely anyway.”
― vann chow, Shanghai Nobody

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#2

“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: bitterness, breakup, disappointment, giving-up-on-love, love, love-hurts, pain, relationship, sad, sadness, sarcastic, sarcastic-humor, sarcastic-love-quotes, sarcastic-quotes

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#3

“Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: dating, ignored, internet, internet-dating, love, relationship-online, sarcastic-quote, self-pity

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#4

“The regret, these two words were etched into my forehead, I was sure.”
― Vann Chow

tags: birthday, china, mistake, nobody, rebound-guy, relationships, self-pity, unimportant

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#5

“Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

tags: dreams, gutter, hopes, humorous-quote, life-lesson, oscar-wilde, reality-check, sarcasm, sarcastic-quote, stars

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#6

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

tags: casino, chances, chaos, curiosity, curious, fortune, gamble, gambler, gamblers-quote, gambling, game-of-luck, human-fallacy, human-weakness, humanity, luck, math, mathematical-prove, mistake, money, online-casino, opportunity, pachinko, playing-poker, poker, poor, probability, random, randomness, randomness-of-life, science, scientific-conclusion, statistics, unknown, waste-money, weak-mind, weak-minded, weakness

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#7

“Love is like wine, it gets better everyday.”
― Vann Chow

tags: faith-in-relationship, long-lasting-love, love, relationship, wine

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#8

“A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.”
― Vann Chow

tags: happiness, loneliness, self-esteem, self-help, time-wasted, travel, traveler, travelling, understanding-oneself, unhappy

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#9

“If you never persisted, you will never succeed.”
― Vann Chow

tags: endurance, happy-life, persistence, success

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#10

“Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

tags: foz, paparazzi, snake

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#11

“Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

tags: asian, german, japan, japanese, on-time, punctual, punctuality, timeliness

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#12

“I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be drinking tea or coffee anywhere. I would be sipping tap water from an old bottle and serving others tea or coffee in a cafe somewhere.”
― vann chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: america, american-dream, bourgeois, bourgeois-society, coffee, debt, indulgent, tea

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#13

“Entitlement is a foreign concept to me.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: entitlement, holiday, life, shanghai-nobody, vacation, vann-chow, work

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#14

“Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.”
― Vann Chow

tags: evil, good, goodness-quotes, quotes, samaritan

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#15

“People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: believe, believe-in-yourself, god, humor, inspirational, trust

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#16

“I never really paid much attention to what kind of person he was, because of my genetic disability, you might say, to give a shit about other people?”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools

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#17

“Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools

tags: birthdays, gifts, presents, strangers

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#18

“You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools

tags: disappointment, expectations, happiness, repeat, repetition, second-time, twice

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#19

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”
― Vann Chow

tags: bravery, courage, funny, hero, humor, humorous, inspirational, loser, plot, story

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#20

“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

tags: fool, happiness, love, love-fool, miracle, miracles-in-life, money, money-not-happiness, penniless, shanghai, shanghai-nobody, sugar-mama

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#21

“Life is not consisted only of 'yes' and 'no', but a lot of 'yes and' and 'no but'.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools

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#22

“The Buddha says ‘there was nothing at the beginning, so how could there be dust?’ I am sure you’ve heard of this saying.” Cao poured me a glass of water to calm me down. “Don’t get perturbed by nothing, Jong.”
― Vann Chow, The Bitcoin Clowns: A Tech-Com

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#23

“If we hadn’t run away, perhaps we wouldn’t have fallen into the trap Cao set up for us. Was this Domino Effect or Butterfly Effect? It appeared that the outcomes were unpredictable and non-linear, fitting the Butterfly Effect model better than…”
― Vann Chow, The Bitcoin Clowns: A Tech-Com

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#24

“May foolishness extinct itself after her, followed by honesty, integrity, kindness, hope, love and all its poisonous derivatives that plagued those that treasured them.”
― Vann Chow, The Pachinko Girl

tags: fool, foolish, foolishness, honesty, hope, integrity, kindness, love

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#25

“Life is like a beer. When the bubbles blew over, that was when the beer started. The beer is only half as good without the foam.”
― Vann Chow, The Kiss of the Pachinko Girl

tags: beer, drinking-and-life, inspirational, life

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#26

“Beauty was something that transcended any human boundary. Bisexuals and homosexuals alike were not exempt from the curse of beautiful things.”
― Vann Chow, The Kiss of the Pachinko Girl

tags: beautiful-things, equality, fairness, gay, gay-romance, homo, homosexuality, lesbian, lgbt-love

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#27

“It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

tags: body, corpse, criminal, investigation, murder, murder-mystery

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#28

“Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

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#29

“It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

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#30

“Such was the nature of life in Tokyo, sparkling on the outside, prickly on the inside.”
― Vann Chow, THE PACHINKO GIRL: The Complete Psychological Thriller (Book 1-4)

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