"I know what real courage is, and I……" — Mo Yan
"I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion."
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27 Quotes by Mo Yan
Mo Yan has 27 quotes on this site.
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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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More Compassion Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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