"I am also well aware that literature only……" — Mo Yan
"I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient."
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27 Quotes by Mo Yan
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People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
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A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
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Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will…
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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
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A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
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The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly…
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in…
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use…
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in…
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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat,…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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