It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives – many quite extraordinary – make up that history.
ALAN BRENNERTPerhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
More Alan Brennert Quotes
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But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.
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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living.
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Hawai’i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a ‘mixed plate’—a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi.
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Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity… life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn’t?
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When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design.
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Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
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It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
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This is also, I believe, what America is at its best—a whole greater than the sum of it’s parts.
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Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.
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God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings.
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She realized now wrong she’d been; the pali wasn’t a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn’t a grave.
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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
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Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
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Hawai’i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs–islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens.
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I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death….is the true measure of the Divine within us.
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