Bei Dao Quotes

#1. Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.

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#2. The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.

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#3. Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Michael P. Anderson

#4. I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Dolly Parton

#5. The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

Billy Graham

#6. On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

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#7. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#8. Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Yann Martel

#9. As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

Bei Dao

#10. We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

T. Harv Eker

#11. Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Magic is one thing, and reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits is another.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.

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#14. A man without a home can't be lost.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Edward Stanley

#16. Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted

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#17. In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence

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#18. Regular, consisten celebration pulls us back to remembering God's goodness.

Afton Rorvik

#19. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

Lauren Kate

#20. It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.

Jim Courier

#21. Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

Bei Dao

#22. As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

Daniel Day-Lewis

#23. Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.

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#24. Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Bei Dao