Qiu Miaojin Quotes

#1. Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

William S. Burroughs

#2. I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in combination with a v-neck sweater, they say 'Grandpa' louder than any other item of clothing.

Russell Smith

#3. We have nothing to fear but insincerity.

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#4. Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.

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#5. Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#6. I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

Ransom Riggs

#7. My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.

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#8. I love my own kind - womankind.

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#9. Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

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#10. Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can't incinerate desire.

David Burr Gerrard

#11. Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

Caroline Corr

#12. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.

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#13. It's lovely to see people so happy.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. The whole of March 18 was so poetically and emotionally satisfying that I went a little wild.

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#15. She gave me a puzzle in a box. She put the pieces together patiently, one by one, and completed the picture of me.

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#16. And on it flows. I long to lie down quietly by the banks of a blue lake and die ... and when I'm dead for my body to be consumed by birds and beasts, leaving only the bone of my brow for Xu ... like Alexander, loyal to an everlasting love.

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