Mei Wen Quotes

#1. The greatest evil is that which uses others for its own gratification, which forces change on others and causes pain for nothing more than its own pleasure.

Anonymous

#2. If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

Oswald Chambers

#3. It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

Ann Beattie

#4. Why are we all only like mortal pieces of furniture? Why is nothing important?

D.H. Lawrence

#5. rediscover the quality he possessed in

Patrick Modiano

#6. It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.

Carl I. Hagen

#7. Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

Nancy Kress

#8. To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Dennis Potter

#9. What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

David Christian

#10. What is China but a people and their stories?

Gene Luen Yang

#11. There are wire cutters carving holes in my heart.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Helena Bonham Carter

#13. Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

George Weinberg

#14. A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

Rick Riordan