"People who are strangers to liquor are incapable……" — Mo Yan
"People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature."
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27 Quotes by Mo Yan
Mo Yan has 27 quotes on this site.
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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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I have always been independent.
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More Incapable Quotes
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one of 437 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging,…
— Walter Benjamin
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
— Mitch Albom
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it…
— Alexis Carrel
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe…
— John Baillie
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