Smaller Fish Quotes by Yiyun Li

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Yiyun Li has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.
• Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.
• But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as…
• What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?
• The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is…
• Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan,…
• The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its…
• To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
• What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can…
• A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.
• I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.
• Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

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