Qian Zhongshu Quotes

#1. A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#2. Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
(Three Penny Opera)

Kurt Weill

#3. We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

Shirley Maclaine

#4. In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Jim Rash

#5. I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

Amartya Sen

#6. When he saw Julia, he searched himself for the old love he used to feel for her. It wasn't gone, but it was a dull, distant ache, still there but healed over
just the shrapnel they couldn't remove.

Lev Grossman

#7. This is the America we know because we built it.

Mia Love

#8. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.

Qian Zhongshu

#9. Others called her "Truth," since it is said that "the truth is naked." But Miss Pao wasn't exactly without a stitch on, so they revised her name to "Partial Truth.

Qian Zhongshu