"What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority"

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Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.

Mu Xin

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“I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”
“You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.”
“The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.”
“How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.”
“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.”
“There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay,”

Source : "Philippines President Takes Hands-On Approach in Two Separate Hostage Situations". www.cnn.com. May 7, 2000.
“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
“The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.”

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