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Arlene J. Chai Biography

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Arlene J. Chai, born in 1955, is an accomplished author whose works span a variety of genres, known for her profound insights and unique narrative style.

Sides Poor Cities Rich Constant Extremes Reminders Manila

Author:Arlene J. Chai

“The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.”

Needs Feels Trying Form Space Answers Air Missing Mouths Empty Tongue Gaps Sensations Filling

Book:The Last Time I Saw Mother

Source: The Last Time I Saw Mother

“Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.”

People Humans Heart Hate Loses Human Beings Animal Desperate

Book:The Last Time I Saw Mother

Source: The Last Time I Saw Mother

“Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.”

Ifs Wells Persons Ends Matter Lasts Passion Companionship Love And Passion

Book:The Last Time I Saw Mother

Source: The Last Time I Saw Mother

“But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.”

Ends Hard Lying Cities Taken Tales

Book:Eating Fire and Drinking Water

Source: Eating Fire and Drinking Water

“Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.”

People Dies Watches Emotional Disease Angry Cancer Stubborn Outlets Resentful Arthritis

Author:Arlene J. Chai

About the Author

Born: 1955
Known for: Author
Quotes: 6

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