Vann Chow Quotes

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.
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If you never persisted, you will never succeed.
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There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost disturbing, attention I got from the various six-feet tall heavily made up air hostesses, that I would come back for more given the steep price tag.
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He felt as if he has heard similar stories before. The wimp at school had grown to become stronger than the bully. And by some devious twist of fate, he would pop back into your life years later and take his revenge in the most unimaginable ways, and make sure that you suffer as much, or more, than he ever did before.
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Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.
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Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.
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Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
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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.
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Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.
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Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
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Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.
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Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".
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Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
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It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.
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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.
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The face of self-pity was universally understood.
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He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.
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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.
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Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
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And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
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While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.
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Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.
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A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.
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Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.
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The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.
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If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.
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I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.
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Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...
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I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.
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I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.
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You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
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She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
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