"My works are Chinese literature, which is part……" — Mo Yan
"My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs."
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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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More Chinese Quotes
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed…
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part…
— Anthony Bourdain
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next…
— Buzz Aldrin
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the…
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the…
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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male…
— Nicolas Cage
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We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused…
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