Madeleine Thien said this quote

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

~ Madeleine Thien

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

~ Madeleine Thien

Was there anyone in this world who could taste something delicious-economic freedom and political reform-a taste that was salty and fattening and sweet and promising, and only be satisfied with one mouthful? Who would wait patiently for nearly a billion people to also have a taste? No, anyone would try to get a second mouthful, a third, a whole bowl for themselves.

~ Madeleine Thien

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

~ Madeleine Thien