Ba Jin Quotes

#1. The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

Michael Pollan

#2. I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

Ba Jin

#3. You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Ba Jin

#4. Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested?

Ba Jin

#5. Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Ba Jin

#6. Writing is a puzzle you'll spend your lifetime unlocking. You will never know it all; you will never know enough. You can always be better, and figuring out how to be better is part of the thrill and joy of the job.

Holly Lisle

#7. For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

Conrad Aiken

#8. To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

Timothy Keller

#9. I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Ba Jin

#10. Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#11. Did having a dog make you less political?

John Irving

#12. When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

Cara Delevingne

#13. My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Ba Jin

#14. Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

Ba Jin

#15. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

#16. Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Nancy Friday

#17. We wrapped ourselves in towels and went back in, eating sandwiches on the bed while Kaidan made fun of the pop love ballads on Marna's playlist. Funny how he knew the words to so many of them.

Wendy Higgins

#18. Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Ba Jin

#19. My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!

Chris Massoglia

#20. Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

Steven Spielberg

#21. I am a person always full of contradictions ... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Ba Jin

#22. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Ba Jin

#23. Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Ba Jin

#24. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Ba Jin

#25. Love, I think and think and think and think and don't say. Don't say it.
Don't say it. Don't tell him you love him.
But I do. I love him more than anything.

Jandy Nelson

#26. Aryal yawned. She had stretched out on the floor, her long legs crossed at the ankle. She said in a drowsy voice, I could start bitch-slapping people. Sooner or later somebody would squawk.

Thea Harrison

#27. ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

Nicole Krauss