"I thought English is a strange language. Now……" — Xiaolu Guo
"I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day."
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9 Quotes by Xiaolu Guo
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.
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People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded…
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About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of…
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But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and…
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Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
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Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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