"All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition."

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Source : Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Mo Yan

#Jobs Quotes #Mean Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.”
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
“It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.”

Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.
“An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.”

Source : George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46
“My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.”
“If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.”
“I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.”
“People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?”

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