Young-Ha Kim Quotes

• [We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Jealous

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• The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

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  Inspiración, motivación, arte

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• We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

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  Inspiración, motivación, arte

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• I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

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  Self, Soul, Portraits

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

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  Moon, Bird, Sun

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• And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

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  Far Away, Stills

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La gente que no sabe resumir no tiene dignidad. Tampoco las personas que alargan innecesariamente sus desordenadas vidas. Quienes no conocen la belleza de la simplificación, de la poda de lo innecesario, mueren sin llegar a comprender el verdadero sentido de la vida.

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  People, Meaning Of Life, Pruning

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

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  Water, Swim, Frogs

  Young-ha Kim (2010). “Your Republic Is Calling You”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

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  Writing, Next, Firsts

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• There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

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  Two, Way, Murder

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

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  Waiting, Moments, Hours

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

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  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

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  Lying, Kids, Firsts

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• Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

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  Becoming, Normal, Life Is

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• A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

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  Artista, Hombres, Crear

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

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  People, Want, Urges

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

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  Reality, Events, Fiction

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?

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  Doe, Faraway Places

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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