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The Wang family was powerful back then, waishengren, Chinese immigrants who had come to Taiwan starting in 1945 and into the 1950s with the Kuomintang (KMT) Party after losing the Chinese Civil War on the mainland.
“Maybe heaven is getting to live forever in one really wonderful moment....I've made a point of collecting happy moments, ones I might like to live in for all time.”
― Ghost Riders
― Ghost Riders
“It is not flippant to see a painting in a predicament.”
― The Matisse Stories
― The Matisse Stories
“Pleasure is life,...and most of us don't have it, or not much, or mess it up, and when we see it in those blues, those roses, those oranges, that vermilion, we should fall down and worship - for it is the thing itself.”
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“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
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