Guan Moye (Mo Yan) Quotes
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
