Xinran Quotes

#1. No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books ...

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#2. As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.

Chris Hardwick

#3. If you want to make true love to me, take this paper and fill up the white space in-between the blue lines.

Delano Johnson

#4. I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

Charlie Bewley

#5. It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#6. A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

Michael Scheuer

#7. No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

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#8. It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

Felix Frankfurter

#9. No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.

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#10. Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life ...

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#11. Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

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#12. Writing can be a source of strength
-Wang Liang

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#13. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

Richard Petty

#14. I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

Plutarch

#16. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

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#17. We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#18. The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

Margaret D. Klein

#19. When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.

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#20. The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

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#21. The person you need to please the most with your story is yourself.

Giuseppe Bianco

#22. The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

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